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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Genus VI BOS. 



Ovibos, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 76 ; Gray, Cat. Rumi- 

 nants Brit. Mus. p. 31, 1872; Butimeyer, Ahli. schiveiz. pal. Ges. 

 voL iv, p. 103, 1877 ; Lonnberg, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, pp. 142, 

 686 ; PococJc, ibid. 1910, p. 857 ; Kowarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvi, 

 p. 107^1911. 



Praeovibos, Staudinger, Zentralbl. f. Min. 1908, p. 481, bis. 



Bosovis, KowarziJc, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvi, p. 107, 1911. 



Size relatively large, build heavy, and limbs stout, with 

 broad and short cannon-bones, and wide main hoofs, of which 

 one in each foot is unsymmetrical to the other. 'No foot- 



FiG. 55. — The Musk-Ox {Ovibos moschatus). 



glands; face-glands and lachrymal pits for their reception 

 apparently either absent or present ; muzzle hairy, w4th the ex- 

 ception of a small bare triangular muffle between the nostrils ; 

 usually four teats, but occasionally (teste Kowarzik) only two ; 

 tail rudimentary ; main hoofs short, wide, and unsymmetrical, 

 with the intervening cleft hairy, and lateral hoofs large. 

 Horns coarsely fibrous in structure, closely approximated in 

 adult males on the forehead, where their bases, which 

 terminate in nearly straight lines, extend from above the 

 orbits nearly to the occiput; their direction being at first 

 outwards and downwards, and then upwards at the smooth 



