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against the sides of the head, and bent up at the tips; of the 
female subcylindrical, curved, far apart on the sides of the fore- 
head. ‘Tail rudimentary, very short, entirely hidden by the fur 
of the haunches. Hoofs broad; apices inflexed. Skull: the 
intermaxillaries short, not reaching the nasal; a small depres- 
sion in front of the orbit, but no fissure; the grinders are with- 
out supplemental lobes. The tail very short, not produced be- 
yond the edge of the pelvis; caudal vertebra thin, flattened, 
expanded. Skull, t. 5. f. 1, 2. 
N. America. 
Ovibos, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, 76 (character) ; 
Desm. Mam. 492. 181; H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 182; Gray, 
List Mam. B. M.; Sundevall, Pecora, 79; Turner, Proc. Zool. 
Soe. 1849. 
Bos, § 3 (Farren, part.), Wagner! 
1. Ovisos moscHaTus. The Musk Ox. 
Bos moschatus, Zimm. Geog. Zool. u. 86; Herm. Naturforsch. 
xix. t.5; Schred. v. t. 202 a,b; Blumb. Hand. 122; Donnd. 
Beytr. Zool. 697; E. Sabine, Parry’s First Voy. Supp. t. 189; 
J. Sabine, Franklin Journ. 668; Richardson, Parry’s Second 
Voy. App. 331; Gmelin, S. N. i. 205; Shaw, Zool. ii. 407. 
t. 11; Cuv. Dict. Sci. Nat. v. 29; Rég. Anim. i. 271; Oss. 
Foss. iv. 133. t. 10; Desmoul. Dict. Class. H. N. ii. 367. 
Bos grunniens, O. Fab. Faun. Gren. 28. 
Amerikanischer Bisam Ochse, Pallas, Nord Beytr. i. 340; Nov. 
Comm. Petrop. xvii. 601. 
Bisam Ochse, Herm. Naturf. xiv. 91. t. 5, head. 
Boeuf Musque, Jeremie, Voy. au Nord, iui. 314; Charlevoiz, N. 
France, v. 194; Buffon, H. Nat. Supp. vi. t.3; Pallas, Act. 
Acad. Sci. Petrop. 1777, 1. 238. 
Musk Ox, Drage, Voy. u. 260; Dobb’s Hudson’s Bay, 19, 25; 
Ellis, Voy. 232; Pennant, Arctic Zool. 269. fig.; Quad. 131; 
Hearne, Journey, 137 ; Parry, First Voy. 257. t.; Second Voy. 
497, 503, 512; Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 767. 
Ovibos moschatus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816; Desm. N. 
Dict. H. N. xxiv. 300; Mam. 492; J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 65, 
1825; Gray, List Mam. B. M. 153; Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 
55; Knowsley Menag.49; Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer.i.275. 
“Musk Bull, Bewick, Hist. Quad. 49. fig. ; 
American Ox, Penn. Syn.1.8.t.2. f. 2, good cop.; Ency. Meéth. t. 
Hab. North America. On the Barren Land, in lat. 60” North. 
Male, stuffed. N. America. Presented by the Lords of the 
_ Admiralty, from Capt. Parry’s first Voyage. 
Specimen figured Parry’s First Voyage, t. 189. 
