142. 



Musk-Oxen 



apparently be regarded as a more or less isolated and specialised type, with 

 some affinity to the sheep. 



Distrihi/tioii. — The central and northern parts of the Holarctic region, 

 to the northern portion of the western half of which it is restricted at 

 the present day. 



I. The Greenland Musk-Ox — Ovibos moschatus 





.v^*^ 



Bos moschatus, Zimmermann, Gcograph. Gcschichtc, vol. ii. p. 86 (17H0) ; 

 Huet, Bi/l/. Soc. Acclim. Paris, vol. xxxviii. p. 346 (1891). 



Ovihos woschattis, De Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 18 16, p. 76; 



Desmarest, Mammalogic, vol. ii. p. 492 

 ■^^^-'f'*\ 1, (1822); H. Smith, in Griffith's .-/wW/ 



V 



Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 373 (1827) ; 

 "^. Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amcr. p. 275 



"^ ^ (1829) ; Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, 



p. 137 ; Grav, List Mamw. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 153 (1843), Cat. Uiigulata Brit. 

 Mus. p. 43 (1852), Cat. Rumimiuts 

 Brit. Mus. p. 32 (1872) ; Dawkins, 

 Brit. Pleist. Mamm. pt. v. {Pal. Soc. 

 1872), Quart. Journ. Gcol. Soc. vol. 

 '^i-fW-' xxxix. p. 575 (1883); Lydekker, CV/A 



Fig. 28.— Head of male Greenland Musk-Ox. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt. ii. p. 38 

 (Rowland Ward, Records of Bie dime.) / nn \ -nt rr 1 ,■ r,i- 



^ -^ * ' (1885); Newton, Fcrteljrata of Pliocem' 



Deposits of Britain [Mem. Gcol. Surv. United Kingdom), p. 22 (1891); 

 Feilden, Zoologist, ser. 3, vol. xix. p. 41 (1893) ; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, p. 260 (1896). 



Ovd)os pallantis, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. ^^75 

 (1827). 





