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C. Ovibos mosehatus niphoecus. 



Ovibos mosehatus niphoecus, Elliot, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. xviii, p. 135, 1905, Check-List Mamm. N. Amer. (Zool. Publ. 

 Field Mus. vol. vi) p. 56, 1905 ; Kowarzik, Bdmer and Schaudinn'a 

 Fauna Arctica, vol. v, p. 110, 1909. 



Bosovis niphcecus, Kowarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvii, p. 107, 1911. 



Typical locality about 600 miles north of Hudson Bay. 



General colour deep black, with a narrow whitish band 

 between the ears behind bases of horns, and a small brown 

 dorsal saddle ; fore-legs greyish in front, black behind, passing 

 into greyish white above hoofs ; hind-legs black in front, 

 shading into grey above hoofs, but greyish on sides and 

 behind ; nose, lips, and chin greyish white ; ears black ; long 

 black body-hair reaching to knees and hocks ; horn-bases 

 relatively narrow. 



No specimen in collection. 



D. Ovibos mosehatus melvillensis. 



Ovibos mosehatus melvillensis, Kowarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, 

 p. 617, 1908, and Edmer and Schaudin's Fauna Arctica, vol. v, 

 p. 113, 1909. 



Bosovis melvillensis, Koivarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvii, p. 107, 1911. 



Typical locality Melville Island. 



Typified by a skull and horns in the K. Zool. Museum 

 der Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule, Berlin, with which its 

 describer associates Parry's figure of a living animal, doubt- 

 less drawn from the specimen entered below. 



According to its describer, this race is characterised by 

 its very dark colour, and the total absence of any trace of 

 white on the upper lip and the margin of the lower lip ; the 

 limbs being also wholly dark, whereas they are stated to be 

 lighter in front in all the other races. Calves are stated by 

 Parry to be lighter, and to show in some cases a whitish 

 saddle. 



Kowarzik states that the bases of the horns are rela- 

 tively wide, and present other distinctive peculiarities, and 

 that the nasals are wider than in the typical race, while the 

 face narrows more markedly towards the muzzle. The 



