1 4 2 , Musk-Oxen
apparently be regarded as a more or less isolated and specialised type, with
some affinity to the sheep.
D i s t r i b u t i o n .central and northern parts of the Holarctic region,
to the northern portion of the western half of which it is restricted at
the present day.
1 . T he G r e e n l a n d M u sk -O x— O vibos m o sch a tu s
Bos moschatus, Zimmermann, Geograph. Geschichte, vol. ii. p. 86 (1780) ;
Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. Paris, vol. xxxviii. p. 346 (1891).
Ovibos moschatus, De Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 18 16 , p. 76 ;
Desmarest, Mamma logic, vol. ii. p. 492
(1822) ; H. Smith, in Griffith’s Animal
Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 373 (1827) ;
Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. p. 275
(1829) ; Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836,
p. 1 3 7 ; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus.
p. 15 3 (1843), Cat. TJngulata Brit.
Mus. p. 43 (1852), Cat. Ruminants
Brit. Mus. p. 32 (1872) ; Dawkins,
Brit. P/eist. Mamm. pt. v. {Pal. Soc.
1872), Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol.
xxxix. p. 575 (1883) : Lydekker, Cat.
Fig. 28.—Head of male Greenland Musk-Ox. F oS S . Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt. ii. p. 38
(Rowland Ward, Records o f Big Game.) , n r , . -
(1885) ; Newton, Vertebrata o f Pliocene
Deposits o f Britain {Mem. Geol. Surv. United Kingdom), p. 22 (1891) ;
Feilden, Zoologist, ser. 3, vol. xix. p. 41 (1893) ; Ward, Records o f Big
Game, p. 260 (1896).
Ovibos pallantis, H. Smith, in Griffith’s Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 375
(1827). MUSK-OX.