3IO Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



can only be killed by stalking in mid- winter, when their pelage is at 

 its best. 



"The Indians along the Peace and Slave Rivers make occasional trips 

 into the buftalo-country with dog teams to establish lines of marten traps. 

 When they discover a band of buffaloes they, of course, kill as many as they 

 can, but they have not made systematic efforts to hunt them for their 

 robes, as they have the musk-ox. . . . During the winter of 1892-9^ 

 forty buffaloes were killed ; the largest number that had been secured for 

 several years. I saw most ot these robes, which were very dark, the 

 hair thick and curled, making a robe superior to that of either musk-ox 

 or plains buffalo ; they were so large that the Indians had cut many of 

 them in halves for convenience in hauling on the sleds." 



The price of these robes ranges between £2 and £\o apiece. 



Additional observations on the woodland bison, by Mr. A. J. Stone, 

 will be found on page 41 of the volume cited above. 



THE CANADIAN MUSK-OX 



[Ovibos moschatus) 



(Plate VII. Fig. 2) 



Some persons are unfortunate in their names, and the same is the case 

 with certain animals. The ruminant popularly known as the musk-ox 

 and scientifically as Ovihos moschatas is an instance ot this, for although 

 no ob)ectit)n can be taken to the prefix " musk," and its Latin equivalent 

 moschatus, yet the English title " ox " is in the highest degree misleading, 

 while the technical Ovihos. which suo-fjests characters intermediate between 

 the oxen and the sheep, is equally unsatisfactory. To say that the 

 creature is an animal sui generis would be a truism, seeing that it is the 



