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GENUS O V I B 0 S . — -B iainvilis. 
DENTAL FORMULA. 
Incisive g ; Canine ^ ; Molar ^ = 32. 
Body, low and compact ; legs, short and covered with smooth short 
hairs ; feet, hairy under the heel ; forehead, broad and flat ; no suborbital 
sinus ; muzzle, blunt and covered with hair ; horns, common to both sexes, 
in contact on the summit of the head, flat, broad, then tapering and bent 
down against the cheeks, with the points turned up ; ears, short, and placed 
far back ; eyes, small ; tail, short. 
Hair, very abundant, long, and woolly ; size and form intermediate 
between the ox and the sheep ; inhabits the northern or Arctic portions 
of North America. 
The generic name is derived from two Latin words — ovis, sheep, and 
bos, ox. 
There is only one known existing species of this genus, although fossil 
skulls have been found in Siberia, from which the name of Ovibos pallentis 
is given in systematic European works. 
OVIBOS MOSCHATUS . — G mei. 
Musk-Ox. 
PLATE CXI . — Males. 
0. Fuscescente-niger, cornibus basi approximatis planis* latissimis, 
deorsum flexis, ad malas appressis apice extrorsum sursumque recurvis ; 
mas magnitudine vaccas biennis. 
CHARACTERS. 
Mult male, size of a small two year old cow J norns, united on the summit 
of the head, flat, broad, bent down against the cheeks, with the points turned up. 
Colour, brownish-black. 
SYNONYMES. 
Le Bceue Musque. M. Jeremie, Voyage au Nord, t. iii. p. 314. 
« “ Charlevoix, Nouv. France, tom. v. p. 194. 
