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absence of a lachrymal pit is also regarded by its describer 

 as a characteristic feature of this race. 



The specimens in the collection are insufficient to afford 

 decisive evidence as to the right of the Melville Island 

 musk-ox to rank as a separate race, although on geographical 

 grounds its distinctness is highly probable. 



612, a. Skin, mounted. Melville Island ; collected 

 during the voyage of Capt. E. Parry, and described and 

 figured on page 257 of Parry's " Journal of a Voyage for the 

 Discovery of a North- west Passage in the Years 1819-20," 

 London, 1821. Co-type. 



Presented hy the Admiralty about 1821. 



612, a. Skull, with horns, provisionally referred to this 

 race. Figured in Gray's Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus., 1852, 

 pi. V, and stated to have been collected during the Parry 

 Expedition. (?) Same history. 



612, h. Skull, with horns, imperfect. Obtained at same 

 time as last. Same history. 



E.— Ovibos mosehatus mackenzianus. 



Ovibos mosehatus mackenzianus, Kowarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, 

 p. 617, 1908, Bomer and Schaudin's Fauna Arctica, vol. v. 

 p. 116. 



Ovibos mackenzianus, Kowarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvii, p. 107, 1911, 

 Denies. K. Ak. Wiss. Wien. vol. Ixxxvii, p. 58, 1912. 



Typical locality Mackenzie district. 



typified by the skin and skull of a male from Great 

 Slave Lake and a skull and skeleton from Great Bear Lake ; 

 the latter of these, at least, being in the Museum fiir 

 Naturkunde, Berlin. 



Kowarzik describes this race as follows : — General colour 

 dark brown ; in middle of back a yellowish saddle, from 

 either end of which runs a dark stripe, reaching in front to 

 highest point of back; on neck brown hair-tufts, with 

 yellowish tips ; forehead dark brown to black ; lips yellowish, 

 without white; region round eyes with light brown hair; 

 flanks blackish brown ; under-parts black ; front of fore-legs 

 above hoofs yellowish mingled with light brown, but 

 superiorly blackish brown; hind-legs dirty yellow above 

 hoofs, passing superiorly into dark brown. Horns with bases 



