94 Tbe Musk-ox 



place the southerly range of the musk-oxen at the 

 6oth parallel, but this is fully two, if not four, 

 degrees too far south to correctly represent their 

 present range. Hearne saw tracks in latitude 59, 

 and musk-oxen in latitude 61, in 1771, but I have 

 never heard of musk-oxen being killed within 

 recent years so far south as the 62d parallel. It 

 is conceivable, however, that they might stray so 

 far south, though in my opinion highly improbable. 

 Pike records a musk-ox killed at Aylmer Lake, in 

 the Barren Grounds. This is the most southerly 

 killing that I have heard of, and the most south- 

 erly one of which Mr. Pike makes record. Aylmer 

 Lake is just above the 64th parallel. I saw no 

 musk-oxen below the 65th degree, and it was my 

 experience, as well as Pike's, that musk-oxen are 

 not what you may, comparatively speaking, call 

 plentiful until the 66th parallel. 



Some writers persist in calling the musk-ox 

 migratory, but there is no reason for doing so. 

 When fully grown, it is about the size of the 

 English black cattle, its height being 4 feet 2 

 to 4 inches at the shoulder, and its girth very 

 large for its height. Indians estimate the flesh of 

 a mature cow musk-ox equal to that of about three 

 Barren Grounds caribou, which would be from 



