THE MUSK OX 



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once ranged right across Russia, since there is evidence of its former existence in 

 Germany as far south as Wiirtemberg. Thence it extended into France, but the 

 Pyrenees and Alps seem to have marked the southern limits of its range. In Eng- 

 land remains of the musk ox have been found in superficial deposits, and its skulls 

 have been dredged from the Dogger Bank. Although the alteration in climatic 



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conditions affords a sufficient reason for the northward retreat of the musk ox we 

 are at present quite in the dark why it has disappeared from the Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere, while the reindeer still has a circumpolar distribution. 



The regions inhabited by the musk ox are of the most barren and 

 inhospitable nature. It has been considered that the animal migrated 

 southward during the coldest part of the year, but this is denied by Mr. H. Bieder- 



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