190S.] 



MAMMALS. 



151 



Thomas Simpson found the animals numerous near Dismal Lakes, 

 between Great Bear Lake and the mouth of the Coppermine, about 

 April 1, 1838.« A. K. Isbister, writing in 1845, says that the musk-ox 

 was said to occur to the westward of Eat River.^ Doctor Eae killed 

 a large male musk-ox near the mouth of Kendall River, a tributary 

 of the lower Coppermine, in June. 1851.^ Since Rae mentions his 

 intention of preserving the skeleton, this in all probability is the one 



^ '60 155 ISO 145 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 



125 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 65 



Fig. 13. — Present distribution of musk-ox (Ovihos moschatus) and related forms. (Range 

 in Greenland incomplete. Along its southern border the range has been considerably 

 reduced within historic times.) 



described by Richardson in his report on the Zoology of the Voyage 

 of the HeraJfL published two years later. 



Armstrong, in his narrative of the voyage of the Investigator, re- 

 cords that tracks of musk-oxen were seen near Nelson Head, near the 



« Narrative Discoveries on Nortli Coast of America, p. 234, 1843, 

 ^ Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc. XV, p. 343, 1845. 

 ^Ibid., XXII, p. 80, 1852. 



