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short ; hoofs larger on the fore than on the hind 

 feet, of a deep brown colour, and converging to- 

 Avards each other on each foot; tail very short, 

 and concealed by the rump ; neck, trunk and ori- 

 gin of the legs, clothed with two kinds of hair, a 

 very thick and long wool, and fine bristles, which 

 traverse it; extremities, from one half of the fore- 

 arm, and tlie commencement of the hind legs, 

 furnished with short and compact hairs near the 

 skin ; beneath the neck and lower jaw furnished 

 with very long hair, of the same nature with those 

 of the back ; hairs of the face, shorter the nearer 

 they approach the end of the nose, which is en- 

 tirely covered with them ; general colour, a red- 

 dish-brown, with nearly black-brown in some 

 places; around the nostrils, upper lip and extre- 

 mity of the lower lip, white. 



Note. — (Fossil skulls of a species of Bos some- 

 what similar to the above, have been found in Si- 

 beria, figured by Cuvier, Recherches, sur les 

 Ossem. Foss. vol. iv. pi. 3. fig' 9 and 10.) 



Habit. The Musk buffaloes, or oxen, go in 

 droves of twenty or thirty; frequent sterile moun- 

 tains, and seldom visit woody countries. They 

 are fleet, and climb rocks with facility ; their flesh 

 is musky. 



Inhabit North America; abound between the 

 sixty-sixth and seventy-third degrees of north 

 latitude, on the western side of Hudson's bay. 



