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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor. 

 BrpartmratB : 



Mammal Reptile 



W. T. HORNADAY, SC. D. RAYMOND L. DlTMARS. 



Aquarium Bird 



C H. Townsend. C. William Beebe. 



Raymond C. Osburn, Ph. D. Lee S. Crandall. 



Published Bi-Mouthly at the Office of the Society, 



11 Wall Street, New York City. 



Single Numbers, 10 Cents ; Yearly, by Mail, 70 Cents. 



MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



Copyright, 1911, by the New York Zoological Society. 



Number 45 



MAY, 1911 



(©flurra of tl)t &orirtfl. 



Jlr r iitilru I : 



Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



tvrnitiiif CO ii in in II t rr 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



John S. Barnes, Samuel Thorne, William White Niles, 



Percy R. Pyne, Levi P. Morton, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 



Frank K. Sturgis, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Officio. 



O'.run ttl (flflim p : 



Secretary 



Madison Grant, 11 Wall Street. 



Treasurer 



Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine Street. 



Director 



William T. Hornaday, Sc. D., Zoolocical Park. 



Director of the Aquarium 



Charles H. Townsend, Battery Park. 



Siiuiril 01 Ifluiiaiirru : 



Ex-Officio 



The Mayor of the City of New York 



Hon. William J. Gaynor. 



The President of the Department of Parks 



Hon. Charles B. Stover. 



ffiU.r of 1912. 



Levi P. Morton, Samuel Thorne, 



Andrew Carnegie, Henry A. C Taylor, 



John L. Cadwalader, Hugh J. Chisholm, 



John S. Barnes, Frank K. Sturgis, 



Madison Grant, George J. Gould, 



William White Niles, Ocden Mills. 



(Slam uf 1913. 



F. Augustus Schermerhorn, C. Ledyard Blair, 



Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 Jacob H. Schiff, 

 George C. Clark, 

 Cleveland H. Dodce, 



Henry F. Osborn, 

 William C. Church, 

 Lispenard Stewart, 

 H. Casimir de Rham, 

 Hugh D. Auchincloss, 

 Charles F. Dieterich, 



Frederick G. Bourne, 

 W. Austin Wadsworth, 

 Emerson McMillin. 

 Anthony R. Kuser. 

 Watson B. Dickerman, 



Ojlaaa of 1914. 



James J. Hill, 

 George F. Baker, 

 Grant B. Schley, 

 Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 

 Robert S. Brewster, 

 Edward S. Harkness. 



ODffirrrn of It)' Zoological JlnrL 



W. T. Hornaday, Sc. D., Director. 

 H. R. Mitchell .... Chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer 

 Raymond L. Ditmars - Curator of Reptiles. 



C. William Beebe - - - Curator of Birds. 

 LEE S. Crandall - - - Assistant Curator of Birds 



W. Reid Blair, D.V.S. - - Veterinarian and Pathologist. 



H. W. Merkel .... Chief Forester and Constructor. 



Elwin R. Sanborn - - - Editor and Photographer. 



O. M. Beerbower - - - Civil Engineer. 



W. I. Mitchell - - - - ■' office Assistant. 



(Sffirrra of lt|» Aquarium 

 Charles H. Townsend, Director. 

 Raymond C. Osburn, Ph.D. - - - Assistant Director. 



Chapman Grant Scientific Assistant 



W. I. DeNyse In Charge of Collections. 



THE MUSK-OX IN ALASKA. 



During the past twenty years, the absence of 

 proof that the Barren-Ground Musk-Ox, (Ovi- 

 bos moschatus') , has inhabited any portion of 

 Nortli America westward of the Mackenzie 

 River has, perhaps unconsciously, drawn Amer- 

 ican mammalogists into the belief that the Mac- 

 kenzie always has formed the extreme western 

 boundary of the genus, at least during the age 

 of man. 



This impression was greatly strengthened by 

 Dr. Allen's paper on the White-Fronted Musk- 

 Ox, (0. wardi), published in 1901, in the Bul- 

 letin of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. Up to that date, and even down to the 

 present year, so far as we are aware, no evidence 

 has been brought before the public tending to 

 disprove the accepted belief. It is therefore 

 witli considerable interest that we have received 

 from a long-time resident of Point Barrow, 

 Alaska, the evidence of living witnesses that 

 during comparatively recent years, herds of 

 musk-ox were found within hunting distance of 

 that settlement. 



For twenty-six years Mr. Charles D. Brower 

 has lived at Point Barrow, engaged in trading 

 in furs and ivory, and he has prepared and fur- 

 nished for publication the statement which ap- 

 pears below. Inasmuch as Mr. Brower is a 

 man of unquestionable reliability, the facts set 

 forth by him may fairly be accepted as estab- 

 lishing a westward extension of the range of the 

 Barren-Ground Musk-Ox along the Arctic main- 

 land coast at least to the longitude of Point 

 Barrow. W. T. H. 



STATEMENT OF CHARLES D. BROWER. 



"I have lived at or near Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 for twenty-six years. When I first went there 

 (1881), there was still alive an old Eskimo 

 native who had killed musk-oxen with bow and 

 arrow. Although I was then unable to under- 

 stand the language of the natives, a few years 

 later I was told the story by a man who when 

 he was a small boy had gone hunting with his 

 father and family, and had seen his father kill 

 musk-ox in this section. 



The man's name was Mungelo, and he was a 

 native of Cape Smythe village. At the time 

 McGuire wintered at Point Barrow he was two 

 or three years old. (This is given to establish 

 a date.) 



A few years after this times were hard at 

 Point Barrow, and no seals were to be had dur- 

 ing the winter. The natives were very hungry, 

 many dying from starvation. Mungelo's father 

 packed his sled and went inland to the southeast 

 of the village, about 9 miles, camping on the 



