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Stone sheep Stone's (mountain) sheep [< Andrew J. Stone, an American sportsman of Missoula, Montana, one of an expedition up the Stikine River for the American Museum of Natural History] 
n. a sub-species of the mouain sheep, Ovis canadensis stonei, found in northern British Columbia and adjacent parts of the Yukon.
See also: bighorn sheep gray sheep
- 1916 You will not get any wapiti or deer there, but . . . you could hardly fail to get specimens of moose, Osborn's caribou, Stone's sheep, and mountain goats, with a good chance of a grizzly or black bear or a wolf or fox.
- 1921 The following day I was lucky enough to kill a fine black bear and the next day two Stone's mountain sheep, or black sheep, so that we had an abundance of good meat.
- 1960 [Caption] Stone sheep on a mineral lick in the Spatsizi district of northern British Columbia.
- 1966 The Yukon big game season . . . enables the licence holder to take one of such big game as moose . . . Stone sheep, mountain goat or grizzly bear.
- 1916 You will not get any wapiti or deer there, but . . . you could hardly fail to get specimens of moose, Osborn's caribou, Stone's sheep, and mountain goats, with a good chance of a grizzly or black bear or a wolf or fox.