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ticed, it was thought that the East Greenland Musk-Ox might 

 prove to be a race distinct from the West Greenland and Ameri- 

 can form, in which the face is, at least in most cases, uniformly 

 dark brown. I have, however, received from Dr. A. G. Nathorst 

 an illustrated account in Swedish of Musk-Ox hunting in East 

 Greenland in 1899 ; and the photographs in this, although they 

 are unfortunately on a very small scale and by no means distinct, 

 seem to show that while some of the bulls have brown faces, in 

 others there is a considerable amount of white, yet the large 

 frontal patch of white which forms such a conspicuous feature of 

 the calves is, of course, obliterated by the expanded bases of the 

 horns. Accordingly, there seem no grounds for separating the 

 Musk-Ox of East Greenland from its representative in West 

 Greenland and Arctic America, although the two would appear 

 to be completely isolated " (/. c., p. 138). 



He appears, however, to have since changed his opinion re- 

 garding its relationship, and in a note of seven lines (Nature, /.^.) 

 has proposed to call it Ovibos moschatus wardi. Under the title, 

 1 A New Race of Musk-Ox,' he says : " Mr. Rowland Ward has 

 on view at his establishment at Piccadilly a mounted adult male 

 and female musk-ox from East Greenland, which differ from 

 the ordinary form in having a large whitish patch on the face, as 

 well as in certain other details of coloration. They may be made 

 the types of a new race, under the name Ovibos moschatus wardi. 

 The female was recently exhibited at the Zoological Society." 

 Mr. Lydekker thus makes no reference to any difference in the 

 shape of the basal portion of the horns in O. wardi as com- 

 pared with those of O. moschatus, and we must turn to the article 

 in ' Knowledge ' (to which, however, Lydekker here makes no ref- 

 erence) to ascertain what are the differences in coloration, beyond 

 the presence of a white face-patch. It seems, however, almost 

 beyond question that Lydekker's name wardi, based on East 

 Greenland specimens, is applicable to the Musk-Oxen of North 

 Greenland, Grinnell Land, and Bache Peninsula. 



We are thus indebted to Lieutenant Peary for the first indica- 

 tion of the peculiarities of the animal now recognized as O. wardi, 

 as furnished by his half-tone reproductions of photographs of 

 North Greenland Musk-Oxen, and also for the first specimens of 

 this form, received, as above noted, at this Museum in November, 

 1899. 



