320 (}ame of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



On 5th February Dr. Lonnherg wrote again, in the tollovving 

 words : — 



" I have looked over a good many skins of different sexes and ages of 

 Ovihos from East Greenland. In most cases the animals have a whitish 

 patch on the forehead, hut sometimes there is only the tuft between the 

 horns white. The hairs forming the mane are otten more or less distinctly 

 light-tipped. Especially is this the case on the sides, so that a more or less 

 conspicuous whitish or yellowish band is formed on each side ot the neck 

 running from the ear to the withers." 



This streak is very conspicuous in the tvpe female figured in Plate W. 



The following particulars regarding the largest skull obtained during 

 the Swedish expedition to East Greenland in 1900 was likewise furnished 

 by the same gentleman, the dimensions being in millimetres : — 



"Basal length of skull ....... 460 



Greatest width across orbits . . . . . .280 



Greatest occipital width . . . . . .187 



Length of the bosses of each horn in the median plane . 205 



" Is not this last dimension less than in the Canadian musk-ox .? 



" The horns were much worn, length of each along the upper border 

 being only 545 mm., and the distance from tip to tip 640 mm. In other 

 respects the dimensions of this skull are not remarkably larger than those 

 of other specimens from the same locality, but the horns are exceedingly 

 thick, the diameter of each below the orbits measured in the antero- 

 posterior direction being j c^ mm., and in the transverse direction 60 mm., 

 which is a good deal more than in any other specimens that have come 

 under my notice. The animal was very old, as is evident from the greatly 

 worn condition of its horns and teeth, the latter being, in fact, so ground 

 down as to be almost useless." 



One of the most noticeable features about the two calves at Woburn 

 was their movements, which recalled those of a polar bear rather tlian 



