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4. 1. 23. 1. Skull, with horns. Hudson Bay. The 

 hollow in the lachrymal bone extends on to the facial surface, 

 and thus seems to be a true lachrymal pit. 



Presented by Alexander Gray, Esq., 1894. 



B.— Ovibos moschatus wardi. 



Ovibos moschatus wardi, LydeMer, Nature, vol. Ixiii, p. 157, 1900, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 832, Great and Small Game of Europe, 

 etc. p. 314, 1901 ; Nehring, Sitzher, Ges. nat. Freunde, 1901, 

 p. 151 ; Bordello, Atti Soc. Ital. vol. xxxix, p. 257, 1901 ; Elliot, 

 Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. Suppl. (Zool. Puhl. Field Mus. vol. ii) 

 p. 485, 1901, Checlc-List Mamm. N. Amer. {op. cit. vol. vi) p. 56, 

 1905 ; KowarziJc, Homer and Schaudinn's Fauna Arctica, vol. v, 

 p. 102, 1909 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 354, 1910. 



Ovibos wardi, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xiv, p. 71, 1891. 



Ovibos pearyi, Allen, loo. cit. 



Bosovis wardi, Kowarzik, Zool. Ann. vol. xxxvii, p. 107, 1911. 



Typical locality East Greenland. 



General colour, including that of horns, lighter than in 

 typical race, with a whitish face-spot, and ears and whole 

 front of head more or less grey instead of entirely dark 

 brown ; basal portion of horns much narrower and different 

 in shape, the maximum width being about one-fourth less ; 

 hoofs narrower and less curved, with a much narrower 

 interval between the fore part of their adjacent borders. 



Full measurements are given by Allen, op. eif. 



According to Allen, the distributional area probably 

 extends from the southern border of EUesmere Land north- 

 wards through Grinnell Land to the Polar Sea, and on the 

 coast of Greenland from about lat. 75° on the westward side 

 and northwards round the Polar extremity of the country to 

 about lat 73° on the east coast. The Grinnell Land specimen 

 in the collection, No. 77. 3. 12. 2, is, however, essentially of 

 the 7n. moschatus type. 



0. 12. 20. 1. Skin, female, mounted. East Greenland. 

 Type. Presented iy J. Rowland Ward, JEsq., 1900. 



0. 2. 14. 1. Skin, and skull, immature. East Greenland. 

 Presented hy the Bulx of Bedford, K.G., 1900. 



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