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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



El, WIN R. Sanbohn, Editur. 



9r|iartmrnl6 : 



Mammal Reptile 



W. T. HORNADAY, Sc. D. RAYMOND L. DiTMARS. 



Aquarium Bird 



C. H. TowNSEND. C. William Beebe. 



RAYAioNn C. OsBURN, Ph. D. Lee S. Crandall. 



Published Bi-Monthly at tlie OfHce of the Society, 



11 Wall Street, New York City. 



Single Numbers, 10 Cents ; Yearly, by Mail, 7U Cents. 



MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



Copyright, 1911, by the New York Zoological Society. 



NuMiiEU 4.5 



MAY, 1911 



(©ftirrra of tift ^orirtn. 

 Prraiilrnt : 



Henry Fairfield Osborn. 

 £xrnitinr ^ammtttrr: 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



John S. Barnes, Samuel Thorns, William White Niles, 



Percy R. Pyne, Levi P. Morton, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 



Frank K. Stlirgis, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Officio. 



dtnntX OOScfra: 



Secretary 



Madison Grant, 11 Wall Street. 



Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine Street. 



Director 



William T. Hornaday, Sc. D., Zoological Park. 



Director of the Aquarium 



Charles H. Townsend, Battery Park. 



Voatb af ManagtrB : 



Ex-Officio 



The Mayor of the City of New York 



Hon. William J. Gaynor. 



The President of the Department of Parks 



Hon. Charles B. Stover. 



Levi P. Morton, 

 Andrew Carnegie, 

 John L. Cadwalade 

 John S. Barnes, 

 Madison Grant, 



Wii 



1 White Niles, 



(SlM*> af 1912. 



Samuel Thorne, 

 Henry A. C Taylor 

 Hugh J. Chisholm, 

 Frank K. Sturgis, 

 George J. Gould, 

 Ogden Mills. 



(Slaa* of 1913. 



F. Augustus Schermerhorn, C. Ledyard Blair, 



Frederick G. Bourne, 

 W. Austin Wadswortf 

 Emerson McMillin. 

 Anthony R. Kuser. 

 Watson B. D 



an, 



Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 Jacob H. Schiff, 

 George C. Clark, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, 



(Elaaa at 1914. 



Henry F. Osborn, James J. Hill, 



William C. Church, George F. Baker, 



Lispenard Stewart, Grant B. Schley, 



H. Casimir de Rham, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 



Hugh D. Auchincloss, Robert S. Brewster, 



Charles F. Dieterich, Edward S. Harkness. 



Wt&cttB af tt|r Zaolagtral Partt : 



W. T. Hornaday, Sc. D,, Director. 

 H. R. Mitchell - . - - chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer 

 Raymond L. Ditmars - - Curator of Reptiles. 



C. William Beebe - - - Curator of Birds. 



Lee S. Crandall - - - AssiBtant Curator of Birds 



W. Reid Blair, D.V.S. - - Veterinarian and Pathologist. 



H. W. Merkel - - . . Chief Forester and Constructor. 



Elwin R. Sanborn - - - Editor and Photographer. 



G. M. Bbbkbower - - - Civil Engineer. 



W. I. Mitchell ... - office Assistant. 



(Sfficfra of Jljf Aquarium 



Charles H. Townsend, Director. 

 Raymond C. OsBiiRN, Ph.D. - - - Assistant Director. 



Chapman Grant Scientific Assistant 



W. I. DkNyse In Charge of Collections. 



THE MUSK-OX IN ALASKA. 



During tlie past twenty years, the absence of 

 proof tliat tlie Barren-Ground Musk-Ox, (Ovi- 

 hos moscJiatus), has inliabited any portion of 

 North America westward of the Mackenzie 

 River has, perhaps unconsciously, drawn Amer- 

 ican niamnialogists into the belief that the Mac- 

 kenzie always has formed the extreme western 

 boundary of the genus, at least during the age 

 of man. 



Tliis impression was greatly strengthened by 

 Dr. Allen's paper on the White-Fronted Musk- 

 C).\, (O. wardi), published in 1901, in the Bul- 

 letin of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. Up to that date, and even down to the 

 present year, so far as we are aware, no evidence 

 has been brought before the public tending to 

 disprove the accepted belief. It is therefore 

 witli considerable interest that we have received 

 from a long-time resident of Point Barrow, 

 Alaska, the evidence of living witnesses that 

 during comparatively recent years, herds of 

 musk-ox were found within hunting distance of 

 that settlement. 



For twenty-six years Mr. Charles D. Brower 

 has lived at Point Barrow, engaged in trading 

 in furs and ivorj', and he has prepared and fur- 

 nished for publication the statement which ap- 

 pears below. Inasmuch as Mr. Brower is a 

 man of unquestionable reliability, the facts set 

 forth by him may fairly be accepted as estab- 

 lishing a westward extension of the range of the 

 Barren-Ground Musk-Ox along the Arctic main- 

 land coast at least to the longitude of Point 

 Barrow. W. T. H. 



STATEMENT OF CHARLES D. BROWER. 



"I have lived at or near Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 for twent3'-six years. When I first went there 

 (1884), there was still alive an old Eskimo 

 native who had killed musk-oxen with bow and 

 arrow. Although I was then unable to under- 

 stand the language of the natives, a few years 

 later I was told the story by a man who when 

 he was a small boy had gone hunting with his 

 father and family, and had seen his father kill 

 musk-ox in this section. 



The man's name was Mungelo, and he was a 

 native of Cape Smythe village. At the time 

 McGuire wintered at Point Barrow he was two 

 or three years old. (This is given to establish 

 a date.) 



A few years after this times were hard at 

 Point Barrow, and no seals were to be had dur- 

 ing the winter. The natives were very hungry, 

 many dying from starvation. Mungelo's father 

 packed his sled and went inland to the southeast 

 of the village, about 9 miles, camping on the 



