MAMMALIA. 43 



against the sides of the head, and bent up at the tips ; of the 

 female subcylindrical, curved, far apart on the sides of the fore- 

 head. Tail rudimentary, very short, entirely hidden by the fur 

 of the haunches. Hoofs broad; apices inflexed. Skull: the 

 intermaxillaries short, not reaching the nasal ; a small depres- 

 sion in front of the orbit, but no fissure ; the grinders are with- 

 out supplemental lobes. The tail very short, not produced be- 

 yond the edge of the pelvis; caudal vertebra thin, flattened, 

 expanded. Skull, t. 5. f. 1, 2. 

 N. America. 



Ovibos, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, 76 (character) ; 

 Desm. Mam. 492. 181 ; H. Smith, Griffith A.K.v. 182 ; Gray, 

 List Mam. B. M. ; Sundevall, Pecora, 79 ; Turner, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1849. 



Bos, 3 (Farren, part.), Wagner I 



1. OVIBOS MOSCHATUS. The MUSK Ox. 



Bos moschatus, Zimm. Geog. Zool. ii. 86 ; Herm. Naturforsch. 



xix. t. 5; Schreb. v. t. 202 a, b ; Blumb. Hand. 122; Donnd. 



Beytr. Zool. 697 ; E. Sabine, Parry's First Voy. Supp. t. 189; 



J. Sabine, Franklin Journ. 668 ; Richardson, Parry's Second 



Voy. App. 331 ; Gmelin, S. N. i. 205 ; Shaw, Zool. ii. 407. 



t. 11; Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. v. 29; Reg. Anim. i. 271 ; Oss. 



Foss. iv. 133. t. 10 ; Desmoul. Diet. Class. H. N. ii. 367. 

 Bos grunniens, 0. Fab. Faun. Green. 28. 

 Amerikanischer Bisam Ochse, Pallas, Nord Beytr. i. 340 ; Nov. 



Comm. Petrop. xviii. 601. 



Bisam Ochse, Herm. Naturf. xiv. 91. t. 5, head. 

 Bceuf Musque, Jeremie, Voy. au Nord, iii. 314; Charlevoix, N. 



France, v. 194; Buffon, H. Nat. Supp. vi. t.-3; Pallas, Act. 



Acad. Sci. Petrop. 1777, ii. 238. 

 Musk Ox, Drage, Voy. ii. 260; Dobb's Hudson's Bay, 19, 25; 



Ellis, Voy. 232; Pennant, Arctic Zool. 269. fig.; Quad. 131; 



Hearne, Journey, 137 ; Parry, First Voy. 257. t. ; Second Voy. 



497, 503, 512 ; Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 767. 

 Ovibos moschatus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816; Desm. N. 



Diet. H. N. xxiv. 300 ; Mam. 492 ; J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 65, 



1825 ; Gray, List Mam. B. M. 153 ; Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 



55; Knowsley Menag.49-, Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. i.2?5. 

 Musk Bull, Bewick, Hist. Quad. 49. fig. 



American Ox, Penn. Syn. i. 8. t. 2. f. 2, good cop. ; Ency. Meth. t. 

 Hob. North America. On the Barren Land, in lat. 60" North. 



Male, stuffed. N. America. Presented by the Lords of the 

 Admiralty, from Capt. Parry's first Voyage. 

 Specimen figured Parry's First Voyage, t. 189. 



