SYNOPSIS OF THE 



Genus II. — Ovibos. 



Body low and compact ; legs short, clean ; feet hairy 

 under the frog or heel ; forehead broad, flat ; no suborbital 

 sinus; a muzzle, but not naked though square; horns 

 common to both sexes, in contact on the summit of the 

 head, flat, broad, then tapering and bent down against the 

 cheeks with the points turned up ; the ears short, placed 

 far back ; eyes small ; tail short ; mammae two ? hair very 

 abundant, long, and woolly ; stature large. Reside in north- 

 ern latitudes. 



888. 1. 0. Moschatus (the Musk-Ox.) Adult male size 

 of a small cow ; horns and characters as noticed above ; 

 colour of the hair brownish-black, hanging low down to the 

 ground ; feet often white : in the female the horns do not 

 form a complete scalp ; the frog in the hoof soft, trans- 

 versely ribbed, and partially covered with hair; the ex- 

 ternal hoof larger and round, the internal pointed and 

 crooked ; swell of musk very powerfully. 



O. Moschatus, Blainv. Desm. Bos Moschatus, Gmel. 

 Musk-Ox, Pen^ . Baeuf Musque, Cwmer. yi.i?,ins, Northern 

 and Chippeway Indian. 



Icon. Pennant, Howitt, Nobis, Parry. 



Habitat the latitudes of North America, adjoining the 

 polar region, and south to the province of Quivira. 



Note. The Fossil Musk Ox, O. Pallantis, with the horns pressed 

 afifainst the temples behind the orbits, found on the coasts of Siberia, is not 

 definitively ascertained to be a separate species. 



Genus III. — Bos. 



Skull very strong, dense about the frontals, v,^hich are 

 convex, nearly flat or concave ; horns Invariably occupying 

 the crest, projecting at first laterally ; osseous nucleus 



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