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broad bases, and in old males almost meet one another in the middle 

 line of the skull. As in the Sheep and Goats, most of the muzzle is 

 hairy, and thus very different from the same part in the Oxen, but 

 the upper lip is not grooved. The matted hair of the body is 

 of great length and thickness. Musk-Oxen associate in flocks, 

 usually numbering from twenty to thirty head, although occa- 

 sionally much more numerous. In habits they are very similar 

 to Sheep ; and in the breeding-season the old males fight together 

 with great ferocity. The single offspring is born in May or June. 

 During the Pleistocene epoch the Musk-Ox wandered over Britain 

 and much of the rest of Northern and Central Europe. Two 

 local races exist, the typical North American Musk-Ox and the 

 Greenland Musk-Ox (0. moschatus wardi, 1048), the latter 

 distinguished by the presence of white hair on the forehead. 

 Mr. D. T. Hanbury is the donor of one of the mounted male 

 specimens of the typical race, while the example of the Greenland 

 race was presented by Mr. Rowland Ward. 



Fig. 12 



The Musk-Ox (Ovibos moschatus). 



'Bushbucks. 



SI; _ Genus 



Tragelaphus. 



With the Bushbucks (Tragelaphus) we come to the 

 first representatives of that indefinable assemblage 

 of Ruminants collectively designated Antelopes, of 



which there are several subfamilies: the Bushbucks, or Harnessed 



