2, Musk. 
S1zE. 
Br i les Spy: Ns 
Mukk Ox, Hift. Quad. N° 9. 
Le Beeuf mufqie, de M. Feremie, Voy. au Nord, iii. 314.—Charlevoix, N: France, 
v. 194.—Lev. Mus. 
BY LL. With horns clofely united at the bafe; bending inwards 
and downwards; turning outwards towards their ends, which 
taper to a point, and are very fharp: near the bafe are two feet in 
girth; are only two feet long meafured along the curvature: weight 
of a pair, feparated from the head, fometimes is fixty pounds *. 
The hair is of a dufky red, extremely fine, and fo long as to trail on 
the ground, and render the beaft a feeming fhapelefs mafs, without 
diftin€tion of head or tail: the legs and tail very fhort: the 
fhoulders rife into a lump. 
In fize lower than a Deer, but larger as to belly and quarters f. 
I have only feen the head of this animal; the reft of the defcription 
is taken from the authorities referred to: but by the friendfhip of 
Samuel Wegg, E{q; 1 received laft year a very complete fkin of the 
cow of this fpecies, of the age of three years, which enables me to 
give the following defcription: 
Cow. The noftrils long and open: the two middle cutting teeth 
broad, and fharp-edged; the three on each fide fmall, and truncated : 
under and upper lips covered with fhort white hairs on their fore 
part, and with pale brown on their fides: hair down the middle of 
the forehead long and ereé& ; on the cheeks fmooth and extremely 
long and pendulous, forming with that on the throat a long beard : 
the hair along the neck, fides, and rump hangs in the fame manner, 
and almoft touches the ground: from the hind part of the head 
to the fhoulders is a bed of very long foft hair, forming an upright 
mane: in the old beafts the fpace between the fhoulders rifes into a 
* M. Feremie, in Voyages au Nord, iti. 315. 
+ The fame. } Drage’s Voy. ii. 260. 
hunch : 
