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202 MAMMALIA.” 
large horns, directed outwards and downwards, ascending from 
the point, flattened, and so wide at their base that they nearly 
cover the forehead, merely leaving between them a triangular 
space, the point of whichis above. It is a very large animal, 
of an excessively ferocious disposition, inhabiting the woods of 
Caffraria. 
B. moschatus, Gm.; Schr. CCCII; La Téte, Buff. Supp. VI, 
iii. (The Musk Ox of America.) The horns approximated and 
similarly directed, but meeting on the forehead in a straight 
line; those of the female are smaller and more widely separated; 
the forehead is convex, and the end of the muzzle furnished with 
hairs. It stands low, and is covered with tufted hair that 
reaches to the ground. The tail is extremely short. It diffuses 
more strongly than any other species the musky odour common 
to all the genus. It is only to be met with in the coldest parts 
of North America, though it seems that its cranium and bones 
have been carried by the ice to Siberia. The Esquimaux make 
caps of the tail, the hairs of which, falling over their face, 
‘defend them from the Musquitoes. » 
ORDER IX. 
CETACEA. 
The Cetacea are mammiferous animals without hind feet; 
their trunk is continued by a thick tail, terminating in an hori- 
zontal, cartilaginous fin, and their head is united to the trunk 
by a neck, so thick and short, that no diminution of its diame- 
ter can be perceived, and composed of very slender cervical 
vertebre, which are partly anchylosed or soldered together. 
The first bones of the anterior extremities are shortened, and 
the succeeding ones flattened and enveloped in a tendinous 
membrane, which reduces them to true fins. Their external 
form is altogether that of fishes, the tail fin excepted, which 
in the latter is vertical. They always therefore remain in 
the water; but as they respire by lungs, they are compelled 
to return frequently to its surface to take in fresh supplies of 
air. Independently of this, their warm blood, their ears, 
