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from Grinnell Land, thence along the low Green- 

 land Coast to East Greenland. Outside of the 

 Arctic islands and of Arctic America so far south 

 as the 62d parallel, the musk-ox is unknown. 

 There was a time, however, when its range included 

 all that part of the northern hemisphere between, 

 roughly speaking, the Arctic Circle and the North 

 Pole. It seems even possible that in the dim 

 ages, the musk-ox had a wider and much more 

 southern distribution, for the skull from which 

 the extinct type bombifrons was named, was found 

 in Kentucky, another having been found also in 

 Arkansas. Fossil remains of musk-oxen have 

 been unearthed in Siberia, Alaska, Grinnell Land, 

 and Northern Europe. There is no authentic 

 data of their having been found in Alaska 

 within the memory of present living man, and 

 they do not range within two hundred miles of 

 the Mackenzie River, which is laid down as their 

 western limit. Much has been said of their being 

 of recent existence in Alaska. I made careful 

 search for authentic data concerning their western 

 range, but secured no information at all trust- 

 worthy of even a tradition of them in Alaska; 

 while nothing more certain than hearsay handed 

 from father to son did I find as to their being 



