MAMMALIA. PECORA, Ox. 337 



to the head, then downwards and a little backwards, having the points rounded, and 

 turning upwards and outwards. Perm. Arc!-, zool. n. 2. pi. vii. 



Mufk Ox. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 9. pi. ii. f. 2. Dobbs, Hudfon's Bay. 18. 2j.— Boeuf mufque. 

 Jeremie, voy. iii. 314. Gharl. nouv. Fr. v. 194. Sm. Buff. vi. 191. Lev. muf. Edin. mi if. Weir's 

 muf. 



Inhabits North America, from New Spain to the Icy Sea.— The Mufk Ox lives in herds of twen- 

 ty or thirty individuals, frequenting moftly the rocky and barren mountains ; it runs nimbly, and is 

 very active in climbing the rocks. In height this fpecies is lower than a Deer, though much larger 

 in the belly and fize of the limbs.; the horns of an old Bull are near two feet in circumference, and 

 the fame in length, and fometimes weigh thirty pounds each ; thofe of the Cow have the fame cur- 

 vature with the Bulls, but are fmaller and more diftant at the bafes. The whole body is covered 

 with very long, fine, black hair, having a dulky mane, tinged with reddifh, on the neck and back ; 

 under this outer coat is a fleece of exquifitely line afh coloured wool; the fhoulder is hunched ; the 

 legs are covered with fmooth whitifh hair ; the hoofs are fhort, broad, and black ; the tail is yery 

 fhort, and is covered and involved in the general long hairy coat ; the ears are erect, iharp pointed, 

 and dilated in the middle, being thickly covered with dufky hair, and marked with a white ftrlpe. 

 The flefh taftes very ftr6ng of mufk, but is wholefome, and the heart is fo ftrongly infected as 

 hardly to be eatable. Some (kulls of this fpecies, with the horns, have been found in the moffy 

 plains of Siberia near the mouth of the Oby ; and one was feen by Fabricius that had floated on the 

 ice to Greenland, though he fuppofed it to belong to the Grunting Ox. 



749 5. Grunting Ox. — 4. Bos gruniens, 4. 



The horns, which are fliort, rounded, {lender, and iharp pointed, are diftant at the 

 bafes, erect:, and bent outwards; the hair on all parts of the body is very long and 

 pendent ; the tail is covered with very long, flowing, filky hairs. 



Grunting Ox, with a tail like that of a horfe. I. G. Gmelin, nov. com. Petrop. v. 339. t. 7. — 

 Bubalus, with a tail like that of a horfe. Pall. act. Petrop. i. part 2. p. 332.— Boeuf velu. Le Brim, 

 voy. i. 120. t. 129.— Cow of Tartary. Sm- Buff. viii. 225. — Bubul. Bell, trav. i. 224. — Tangutif- 

 cher Biiffel. Pall. nord. Beytr. i. t. 1. — Grunting Ox. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 7. — Poephagus. 

 Aelian, de an. xvi. c. 9. 



Inhabits Tangut, Mongalia, and Thibet; and is cultivated, though with considerable variety of fize 

 and colour, in Siberia, China, Perfia, and India. — The fize of this animal is various ; fome individuals 

 muft be very large, as the tail, which does not reach the ground, is fometimes fix feet long; the head 

 is fhort, with a broad nofe, thick hanging lips, and broad ears, which' point downwards, and are be- 

 fet with coarfe briftles; the horn? are diftant, fhort, {lender, and very iharp pointed, having a long 

 curling tuft of hair between; the hair on the middle of the fore-head is radiated; the fpace between 

 the fhoulders is much elevated ; aloiig the neck, and fometimes along the whole back, is a kind of 

 white mane ; the head and body are black ; the hair on the belly, throat, and neck, is very 1op.<j, 

 while on the reft of the body it is like that of a Goat ; the hoofs are large, and the fpurious hoofs 

 project confiderably ; the tail is broad, and is covered with long, flowing, gloffy, filky hairs, fome- 

 times white or filvery, and at other times black. The flefh of the full grown animals is hardly eat- 

 able. A bezoar is frequently found in the ftomachs of this fpecies. 



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