Greenland Musk-Ox 



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Ovibos moschatiis wardi. The race would be sufficiently characterised by 

 the presence of the light grey tuft in the middle of the face of both sexes 

 ot the adult. But not improbably the still larger amount of greyish white, 

 or white, on the face of the calves was also a distinction ; for the author 

 had been informed that in young American musk-oxen the face was 

 uniformly brown. 



It was also suggested that in future the fossil Asiatic and European 







Fig. 70. — Young Greenland Musk-Ox at Woburn Abbey in April 1901. 

 Photographed by the Duchess ot Bedford. 



musk-ox, which was doubtless subspecifically distinct from both the living 

 American races, might be designated Ovibos moschatiis pa //a litis (De Kay), 

 the name inaxiiniis being available for the fossil American form if con- 

 sidered desirable. 



About the time that these preliminary notices were written in England, 

 Dr. J. A. Allen was investigating the Greenland musk-ox in America, and 

 in March 1901 he issued, in vol. xiv. ot the Bulletin of the American 

 Museum of Natural History^ a memoir entitled the " Musk-Oxen of Arctic 

 America and Greenland." His new material consisted of specimens 



