MUSK OXEN IN CAPTIVITY. 609 



biiir.s legs are said to be bad, possibly from rheumatism, owing to the 

 moist climate. The musk ox in Copenhagen also suffered from that 

 the first autumn. He is getting on splendidly, but has not shown 

 the slightest sign of interest in any of the females (yak cow and 

 Frisian sheep) proffered him. 



One of the surviving heifers from Tromso is now (July 15, 1904) in 

 the garden at Copenhagen, having been secured at a cost of 3,000 

 kroner, so that at present the garden has the unique distinction of 

 possessing a pair of these animals. Unfortunately the female is yet 

 too young for breeding. The other heifer is in the zoological garden 

 at Hamburg. 



From recent information it appears that there remains in Sweden 

 but one specimen, a cow born in 1900, and that the bull in Norwa}^ 

 has also succumbed. 



