76 The Musk-ox 



BUS, divided into O. moschatus, the Barren Grounds 

 and Greenland type, the O. wardi (Lydekker), 

 and O. bombifrons, otherwise known as the Har- 

 lan's musk-ox, an extinct type that, in a word, 

 differed from the present living type largely in 



Forefoot of Barren Grounds Musk-ox. % actual size 



shape of the horns, which did not have the down- 

 ward curve of those in existence, nor did the 

 curve of the horns come closely to the head as 

 they do now. Until 1898 O. moschatus was the 

 only existing type known to either hunters or 

 scientists. In that year, however, Lieutenant 

 Peary, the Arctic explorer, killed in Bache Pen- 



