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Bruyn. It. Mosc. 120. t. \19.-~Tangutischen Buff el, Pallas, Nord Beytr. i. 1. 1 (1780), (muffle too large). 
— Buffelart mid dem Pferde schweif, Gmelin, Nov. Com. Petrop. v. 339. t. 7. — Yac, Turner, 186. t. 10. — 
Shaw, Zool. ii. 411. t. 213. — Bubul, Bell, Travels, i. 212. — The Grunting Bull, Penn. Syn. 5. — Cuvier, 
Oss. Foss. iv. t. 10. f. 13, 14, skull. — Yac or Svora, Soy, Asiat. Res. iv. 349. t. . 
Inhabits Thibet. 
A specimen in the British Museum, and another in the India House Museum. 
In the Gardens of the Zoological Society there is a hybrid between this animal and a domestic Indian 
Ox. It is figured in the Illustrated Proceedings of the Society for 1850. 
7. OVIBOS {Blmm:). 
Nose ovine ; muffle none ; horns very broad at the base, nearly united together, tapering, pressed down- 
vt^ards against the sides of the head, and bent up at the tips ; tail very short, covered with elongate 
hair ; hoofs broad, apices inflexed ; the intermaxillaries ? ; the skull has a small depression in front 
of the orbit, but no fissure ; the grinders are without supplemental lobes ; the bones of the tail very 
short, not produced beyond the edge of the pelvis. 
Inhabits N. America. 
The skull has many characters which show its relation to the Sheep. 
The Musk Ox. Ovibos moschatus. 
Bos moschatus, Zimmerm. — Herm. Naturf. xix. t. 5. — Musk Ox, Dobbs, Hudson's Bay, 1825. — Penn. Art. Zool. 
269, fig.— Parry, Voy. t. .—Knight, M. A. N. f. 767.— BufFon, Supp. vi. t. 3, head.— Cuvier, Oss. Foss. 
iv. 1. 10, f. 15, 17, skull.— American Ox, Penn. Syn. i. 8. t. 2. f. 2, good, cop. E. M. t. . f. . — Bisamoschse, 
Herm. Beitr. Naturf. xix. 9. t. 5, head. — Ovihos moschatus, Blainv. — Desm. Mamm. 492. — Bceuf Musque, 
Charlev. N. Tr. iii. 131. 
Inhabits N. America. Brit. Mus. 
A beautifully preserved male, in the collection of the British Museum, which was brought to this coun- 
try by the Arctic Expedition, and presented by the Admiralty. This is the only example known to exist in 
any museum in Europe or America. It has served for the type of all the figures, from Parry to Audubon. 
The bones of this species are found with those of the Mammoth at Eschscholz Bay, Behring's Straits. 
— See Pallas, Nov. Comm. xvii. t. 17; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 150. t. 3. f. 3, 8. t. 11. f. 1-4 ; Siehel, Fauna, \. 155. 
8. BUDORCAS {Hodgson). 
Muzzle hairy, with a small naked muffle only edging the nostrils ; ears narrow, pointed ; the fur (in summer 
at least) consists of shorty harsh, adpressed hair ; the tail is short, very depressed, and hairy, like 
the tail of a Goat; the head is large and heavy; the lips taper, and are clad with hair, like Sheep; 
the nostrils are wide and terminal ; the horns are round, smooth, lunate ; they are nearly in contact 
on the top of the head ; their direction is vertically upwards, then horizontally outwards or to the 
sides, and then almost as horizontally backwards ; the limbs short and straight ; the hoofs broad. 
Inhabits Mountains of Asia. 
This very interesting genus is only known to me from Mr. Hodgson's description and figures, and its 
place in the system is doubtful ; but it appears to be more related to the Mountain Oxen than to any other 
groups, though covered with adpressed hair. It has a mane on the throat. 
The Takin. Budorcas taaiicola. 
Yellowish grey ; hairs yellow, black tipped ; the head, neck, dorsal streak, belly, limbs and tail black ; 
they are sometimes entirely black. 
Budorcas taxicola (Tahiri), Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1850, 65. t. 1, 2, 3, animal and skull. 
Inhabits Eastern Himalaya ; the Mishmi Mountains. Called Takin by the Mishmis, and Kin by the 
Khamtis. 
