Greenland Musk-Ox 143 



Bos pi///as/\ De Kay, y^////. Lye. Neiv Tori, vol. ii. p. 29 (1828), m'C 

 Baer, 1823. 



Bos canaliciilatiis., Fischer, Mem. Acad. Moscou, vol. iii. p. 287 (1834). 



Bubaliis inoschatiis, Owen, Qjjiirt. "Joiini. Geo/. Soc. vol. xii. p. 124 

 (1856). 



Plate XI. 



Characters. — Height of male at shoulder from about 4 teet to 4 feet 

 2 inches. Head short and blunt, with a slightly convex profile. Horns 

 of male enormously expanded and flattened at the base, separated trom 

 one another merely by a narrow strip ot skin covered with short hair ; 

 curvature at first outwards, then downwards and slightly backwards, and 

 finally upwards and a little forwards, their tips terminating in the plane 

 of the eyes ; in colour pale yellowish-olive at the bases, but black at the 

 tips, which are quite smooth and cylindrical. Horns of female with the 

 same general curvature. The greater part ot the head and body covered 

 with a dense coat of long and coarse hair, which is curly and somewhat 

 matted at the shoulders, but elsewhere long and straight, hanging down 

 on the flanks to below the level of the knees and hocks ; on the neck and 

 withers it forms a kind of matted mane, the forehead has a distinct tutt, 

 and there is a long fringe on the chin, throat, and chest, although no dew- 

 lap is developed ; on the muzzle and lower portion ot the limbs, as well 

 as on the strip of skin between the horns, shorter and finer than elsewhere ; 

 a soft woolly under-fur at the bases of the longer hairs which is shed in 

 summer. General colour of pelage very dark brown, becoming still darker 

 or even blackish on the forehead, the throat-fringe, and the sides of the 

 body ; a saddle-shaped patch of matted hair on the middle of the back, 

 as well as the short hair between the horns, on the muzzle, and on the 

 limbs below the knees and hocks, butTish or yellowish-white. 



There is no evidence that the musky odour to which the animal owes 



