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Rocky Mountain sheep 
a sheep, Ovis canadensis, found in the western mountains.
See also: argali bighorn sheep Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
- 1794, 1911 [There are a kind of large sheep on the Rocky Mountains, their horns the size of a cow's.]
- 1821 (1900) 1 Horn, Rocky Mountain Sheep.
- 1892 (1908) Of mammals found in Canada which are not known elsewhere in the world except to the southward in the same Nearctic region . . . the following may be mentioned: Rocky Mountain goat, Bighorn, or Rocky Mountain sheep. . . .
- 1964 Waterton Lakes National Parks officials have weighed, measured and marked 30 Rocky Mountain and Bighorn sheep this spring. . . .
- 1794, 1911 [There are a kind of large sheep on the Rocky Mountains, their horns the size of a cow's.]