1908.] 



MAMMALS. 



151 



Thomas Simpson found the animals numerous near Dismal Lakes, 

 between Great Bear Lake and the mouth of the Coppermine, about 

 April L, L838. a A. K. Isbister, writing in 1845, says that the musk-ox 

 was said to occur to the westward of Rat River. 6 Doctor Rae killed 

 a large male musk-ox near the mouth of Kendall River, a tributary 

 of the lower Coppermine, in June. 1851. c Since Rae mentions his 

 intention of preserving- the skeleton, this in all probability is the one 



145 140 



Pig. 13. — Present distribution of musk-ox [Ovibos moschatua) and. related forms. (Range 



in Greenland incomplete. Along its southern border the range has I n considerably 



reduced within historic times.) 



described by Richardson in his report on the Zoology of the Voyage 

 of the Herald, published two years later. 



Armstrong, in his narrative of the voyage of the Investigator, re- 

 cord- that tracks of musk-oxen were seen near Nelson Head, near the 



a Narrative Discoveries on North Coasl of America, p. 234, 1S43. 

 frJourn. Roy. Geog. See. XV. p. 343, L845. 

 'Ibid.. XXII, p. 80, 1852. 



