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which is the same, essentially, as hair. The Oxen or 

 Bovinae have the horns round. 



Of the Oxen few are more remarkable than the Musk 

 Ox of the Barren Grounds of North America. This 



FIG. 106. 



Musk Ox, Ovibos moschatus, Blaiuville. 



curious animal is about as large as a two-year-old cow, 

 and the body is covered with long brownish black hair. 



As examples of the typical or true oxen (-Bos), we 

 may mention the domestic ox, and the Buffalo or Bison 

 of our Western plains, which attains the size of a large 

 domestic ox. Here also belong the Aurochs of the Cau- 



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casus, the Cape Buffalo of South Africa, and the Arni of 

 India ; the last with horns ten feet from tip to tip. 



The artiodactyls which have their horns rounded, va- 

 riously curved, ringed, and black, are called Antelopes 

 (Antilope). Of these nearly a hundred species are known, 

 varying in size from the light and graceful Gazelle (Fig. 

 109) of Northern Africa not larger than a fawn to those 

 like the Eland of Africa, which is as bulky as a large ox. 

 Of these all but one, which inhabits North America, and 

 the Chamois (Fig. 108) and one other which inhabit 



