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prove to be a race distinct from the West Greenland and American torm, 

 in which the face is uniformly dark lirown. Certain small -sized photo- 

 gravures of East Greenland musk-oxen, which came under the writer's 

 notice about this time, seemed, however, to indicate that the presence ot 

 white on the face was not a constant feature of the East Greenland 

 musk-ox, and the idea of its distinctness was consequently tor the time 

 abandoned. 



But towards the end of 1900 the skulls and skins of an adult male and 

 female musk-ox from East Greenland were received at the establishment 01 

 Mr. Rowland Ward in Piccadillv ; and these when mounted showed a con- 

 siderable amount of white on the face. A brief note was communicated to 

 Ncitiiir^ by the present writer, making these two specimens the types ot a 

 new race, under the name of Ovihos mosc/mtus %vardi ; Mr. Ward having in 

 the meantime generously presented the female specimen to the British 

 Museum. 



On 4th December 1900 tlie present writer exhibited the temale speci- 

 men before the Zoological Society, remarking that both specimens difi-ered 

 from the musk-ox of Arctic America (and probably West Greenland) by 

 the presence ot a large patch of long whitish hair in the middle line ot the 

 tace between the horns and the muzzle, and also by the hair on the rest of 

 the tront ot the tace being grizzled, instead of uniformly dark brown. In 

 the temale the hair between the bases of the horns was also white, and a 

 little white hair was observable between the closely approximated horns of 

 the bull. 



It was then mentioned that the author had previously been struck with the 

 presence ot the white on the tace of the young East Greenland musk-oxen 

 at Woburn Abbey, but had not been satisfied that the feature might not be 

 due to immaturity alone. Now, however, it was demonstrated to occur in 

 the adult ot the East Greenland race, which it was proposed to name 



' Vol. Ixiii. p. 157 (13th Dec. 1900). 



