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stomach. Cows never give birth to more than 

 one calf at a time, born in June. 



On only two occasions have musk-oxen been 

 brought alive into captivity in North America. 

 One of these was an eighteen months' old female 

 caught east of Lady Franklin Bay, about thirty 

 miles inland, by a party sent out by Captain H. 

 H. Bodfish, of the whaler Beluga. This was 

 exhibited at the Sportsmen's Show in New York, 

 where it was purchased by the Hon. William C. 

 Whitney and presented to the Zoological Society 

 of New York in March, 1902. The other was a 

 younger specimen caught in Northeastern Green- 

 land by Lieutenant Peary and brought out and 

 presented to the Zoological Society by him in 

 October of the same year. Both specimens, how- 

 ever, died within a few months. Up to now I 

 believe something like a dozen live specimens 

 have been taken out to the civilized world. All, 

 however, at this writing, have died, except two or 

 three. One is in a zoological garden at Copen- 

 hagen, another in a zoological garden at Berlin, 

 and another is in England, owned by the Duke 

 of Bedford, but exhibited, I am told, in London. 



