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southern extremity of Baring Land. September 7. 1850 ; ° five were 

 killed October 29, 1850, near the nortliern extremity of Prince Albert 

 Land ; ^ others Avere killed at Mercy Bay, Banks Land, in the summer 

 of 1852/ M'Dougall. in his narrative of the voyage of the ResoJutc, 

 records that remains were seen on Lowther Island; ^ near Hardy Bay 

 the species was observed in great numbers, about TO being seen at one 

 time ; ^ a white musk-ox cow was seen June 18, 1853. at Cape Smyth 

 by Lieutenant Mecham ; ^ six individuals were seen at Cape kludge. 

 Hecla and Griper Bay, Melville Island : and two were killed on Byam 

 Martin Island in the summer of 1853; -'^ a total of 11^ individuals 

 were shot on Melville Island between September, 1852, and Septem- 

 ber. 1853.'' J. C. Ross states that a few were found near the Isthmus 

 of Boothia, where one was killed in April, 1830.' Kennedy states 

 that many tracks of musk-oxen were observed in the spring of 1852 

 on the coast of Xorth Somerset near Cape Garry and southward.' 

 Osborn records tracks seen on the north shore of Prince of AVales 

 Land in the spring of 1851.''' McCormick in August, 1852, found the 

 skull and horns of a musk-ox on the shores of Clarke Bay, and tracks 

 on Baring Bay. Xorth Devon.' 



During AVarburton Pike's explorations in the Barren Grounds 

 north of the eastern part of Great Slave Lake in the autumn of 1889. 

 he first met with the species near Lac de Gras. on September 27 : "' he 

 found it numerous near the source of the Coppermine, north of 

 Mackay and Aylmer lakes, in Xovember." A large herd composed 

 entirely of cows was seen near Sandy Bay, Aylmer Lake, on July 1, 

 1890.^ According to James MacKinlay, who accompanied Pike to 

 the Barren Grounds in 1890, the single young one is generally born 

 in April, and he was informed by Indians that the cow usually buries 

 the calf in the snow as soon as it is born, selecting a sheltered place 

 exposed to the rays of the sun, and that three days after birth it is 

 able to run with the dam.^^ The species abounds along Back Ri^'er, 



« Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, p. 210, 1S57. 

 ^IbicL, p. 275, 1S57. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 533, 1857. 



^Voyage of Resolute to Arctic Regions, p. 103, 1857. 

 ^ IbicL, p. 288, 1857. 

 f Ibid., p. 296, 1857. 

 s Ibid., p. 525, 1857. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 529, 1857. 



^ Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. xviii, 1835. 

 ^ Narrative Second Voyage Prince AWert, p. 129, 1853. 

 ^"Arctic Journal, p. 220, 1852. 

 ' McCormiclv's Voyages, II, pp. 113, 132, 1884. 



Barren Ground of Northern Canada, p. 65, 1892. 



Ibid., p. 102 et seq., 1892. 

 0 Ibid., p. 166, 1892. 



i'Ogilvie, Ann. Rept. Dept. Interior (Canada) for 1892. Part VII. p. 40. 1893- 



