e not far
removed from the Deep Creek Mountains.

_=Lutra canadensis nexa=_ Goldman. River Otter.--River otters are rare
in a semi-arid state like Utah, and few have been preserved as
scientific specimens. Durrant (1952:436) had access to but one skull
from an immature animal from the Raft River Mountain area in
northwestern Boxelder County. At present there are two complete
specimens (skins, skulls and skeletons) in the collection of the
University of Utah. They were trapped by an employee of the Utah State
Fish and Game Department, and were donated to the University of Utah by
J. Perry Egan, Director of the above mentioned department. They are
nos. 8854 and 8855, and are from the Raft River, 2 miles south of the
Utah-Idaho border, Boxelder County.

_=Alces americanus shirasi=_ Nelson. Moose.--The moose is rare in Utah,
and to date records of its occurrence have been based solely upon sight
records. There are, nevertheless, two specimens preserved. One is a
young bull (skull only) from Farmington Canyon, Davis County, in the
collection of Weber College, Ogden, Utah. The other is one antler (No.
10,745) of a young bull from Henrys Fork, 16 miles south of the
Utah-Wyoming border, Summit County, and it is in the collection of the
University of Utah. This large cervid apparently is increasing in
numbers in the state. Dale Jones of the Utah State Fish and Game
Department reported to us that a herd of 25 animals was observed in
1954, in the vicinity of Haydens Peak, Bear River Drainage, Summit
County. A cow and a calf were seen in the vicinity of Strawberry
Reservoir, Wasatch County, in 1951, by employees of the same
department. This latter locality is the most southern and eastern point
of their known occurrence in Utah.

_=Ovis canadensis canadensis=_ Shaw. Mountain Sheep.--Formerly, the
mountain sheep was not known to occur in the La Sal Mountains in Grand
and San Juan counties. On October 23, 1954, a two year old ram, No.
10,906, was killed by a deer hunter at a locality 1-1/2 miles north of
La Sal, La Sal Mountains, San Juan County. This constitutes the first
complete specimen (skin and skull) of a mountain sheep from Utah.
According to Harold Crane, of the Utah State Fish and Game Department,
this ram was running with a herd of mule deer, and was the only
mountain sheep that was seen. The ram was confiscated and given to the
Department of Zoology, University of Utah, for preservation as a
scientific specimen.