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grizzled through the admixture of white hairs ; whole nose white or 

 whitish, the white of the nose separated from the white ot the forehead by 

 a darker band half-way between forehead and nose ; feet white or whitish 

 from the hoofs upward to or a little beyond the carpal and tarsal joints 

 [knees and hocks], including nearly all of the portion ot the limbs not con- 

 cealed by the long shaggy coat of the body, becoming darker proximally 

 [i.e. superiorly], so that the white of the feet rather gradually merges into 

 the darker colour of the upper segments of the limbs. The white on the 

 head in old males often forms a band behind the horns ; in others it is partly 

 in front of them and partly behind them, or entirely in front of them. 



" The females and young males are similar as regards the white mark- 

 ings. The white on the head is somewhat variable in respect to purity 

 and extent in different individuals ; it is never wanting, and averages about 

 as above described. 



"A young female calf, probably not more than six weeks old, killed at 

 Fort Conger, i8th May 1899, is nearly black throughout, except for the 

 greyish ears, whitish nose, dingy brown feet, and a lighter, brownish, 

 incipient saddle-mark on the back, being much darker than the adult and 

 half-grown specimens, and with only a trace of the white face-spot of the 

 adults." 



Much attention has been bestowed on the external and internal features 

 of the Greenland musk-ox by Dr. E. Lonnberg, of Upsala, who contributed 

 two important papers on this subject to the Proceet/ings of the Zoological 

 Society of London for 1900. On 17th January this gentleman wrote to 

 the author as follows : — 



" I have just seen in Nature that you have proposed a new name for 

 the musk-ox from East Greenland. The large white or whitish patch 

 on the face is developed in all the skins I have seen from East Green- 

 land — in the highest degree in the calf — and may thus be a constant 

 characteristic." 



