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sures twenty inches longer than the one examined by Dr. Richardson, and it appears 

 to have been altogether larger, though not much higher. Mr. Smith, in the same 

 place, has given a figure of a pair of horns, which are preserved in the Museum of the 

 College of Surgeons, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and which he was induced to consider 

 as belonging to a different animal, which he has called Antelope Palmata. The horns 

 sent home by Dr, Richardson, have been compared with those in the College of Sur- 

 geons, and found to correspond exactly with them, and confirm Mr. Smith's conjec- 

 ture that the curvature of the extremities are naturally directed inwards. The ac- 

 quisition of these is particularly useful, because it authorizes the union of the A. Fur- 

 cifer,and A. Palmata, of Mr. Smith ; they are evidently but one animal. 



This is the only instance of an Antelope not having perfectly simple horns ; and the 

 deviation from that character has suggested the propriety of establishing a new genus 

 in which this animal may be placed, and which has been proposed by Mr. Ord to be 

 named Antelocapra. 



Bos Americanus. American Buffalo. 



The American Buffalo, or Bison, though separated by Linnaeus, has been con- 

 founded with the Buffalo of the ancient world. An individual living specimen has, 

 for a few years past, been exhibited, under this mistake, to the inhabitants of the 

 British metropolis, as the Bonassus of Aristotle and Pliny. The Buffaloes are abundant 

 in all parts of North America, wherever the progress of cultivation has not interfered 

 with their range ; they are extremely numerous on the plains of the Sashatchawan, 

 and are also found, though less plentifully, in the woods, as far north as Great Slave 

 Lake; a few frequent Slave Point, on the north side of the Lake, but this is the most 

 northern situation in which they were observed by Captain Franklin's party. The 

 natives say that the wood Buffaloes are larger than those of the plains, but the differ- 

 ence is not material ; they are called Moostoosh bv the Cree Indians. 



Bos Moschatus. Musk Ox. 



Musk Oxen are only found in the most northern parts ; they were not seen farther 

 south than latitude 66° in the line of country examined by the Expedition; but pur- 

 suing the course of the shores of Hudson's Bay, they occasionally came in that direc- 

 tion as low as 61°. They support themselves on the same food as the Rein Deer. 







Their flesh used formerly to be brought to Fort Churchill by the hunters. The late 

 Arctic Voyage of Captain Parry, has brought us more acquainted with the habits of 

 these animals ; in summer they migrate in considerable numbers from the continent, 

 over the ice, to the various islands which exist in the Polar Sea. M. Blainville has 

 proposed to place this animal in a new genus, to be named Ovibos. The Crees 

 call the Musk-Ox, Mathek-mongsoo, or Ugly Moose. 



