MUSK-OX. 
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Musk-Ox. Drage, Voyage, vol. ii. p. 260. 
“ Dobbs, Hudson’s Bay, pp. 19, 25. 
“ Ellis, Voyage, p. 232. 
“ Pennant, Quadr., vol. i. p. 31. 
“ “ Arctic Zoology, vol. i. p. 9. 
“ Hearne’s Journey, p. 137. 
“ Parry’s First Voyage, p. 257, plate. 
“ Second Voyage, pp. 497, 503, 512 (specimen in British Museum). 
Bos Moschatus. Gmel. Syst. 
Capt. Sabine (Parry’s First Voyage, Supplement, p. 189), 
“ “ Mr. Sabine, Franklin’s Journey, p. 668. 
“ “ Richardson, Parry’s Second Voyage, Appendix, p. 331. 
Ovibos Moschatus. Richardson, Fauna Boreali Americana, p. 275. 
Mataeh-Moostoos (Ugly Bison). Cree Indians. . 
Adgiddah-Yawseh (Little Bison). Chipewyans and Copper Indians. 
Ooningmak. Esquimaux. 
Ovibos Moschatus. Harlan, Fauna, p. 264. 
Bos Moschatus — The Musk-Ox. Godman, Nat. Hist. vol. iii. p. 29 . 
DESCRIPTION. 
Horns, very broad at base, covering the brow and crown of the head, 
touching each other for their entire basal breadth from the occipital to the 
frontal region : as the horns rise from their flatly-convex bases they 
become round and tapering, like those of a common cow, and curve down- 
wards between the eye and the ear to a little below the eye, where they 
turn upwards and outwards (in a segment of a circle), to a, little above the 
angle of the eye, ending with tolerably sharp points. The horns for half 
their length are rough, with small longitudinal splinters of unequal length, 
beyond which they are smooth and rather glossy, like those of a common 
bull. 
Head, large and broad ; nose, very obtuse ; nostrils, oblong openings 
inclining towards each other downwards from above ; their inner margins 
naked ; united at their base. There is no other vestige of a muzzle ; the 
whole of the nose, and the lips, covered with a short coat of hairs ; there 
is no furrow on the upper lip. 
The head, neck, and shoulders are covered with long bushy hair, and 
there is a quantity of long straight hair on the margins of the mouth and 
the sides of the lower jaw. 
Eyes, moderately large, and the hair immediately around them shorter 
than on other parts of the cheeks ; ears, short, and scarcely visible through 
the surrounding long hair, which is more or less waved or crimped, and 
forms a sort of ruff back of the neck ; legs, short and thick, clothed with 
