Greenland Musk-Ox 143
Bos pallasi, De Kay, Ann. Lyc. New Tork, vol. ii. p. 29 (1828), nec
Baer, 1823.
Bos canaliculatus, Fischer, Mém. Acad. Moscoti, vol. iii. p. 287 (1834).
Bubalus moschatus, Owen, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xii. p. 124
(1856}.
Plate XT.
Characters.—-Height of male at shoulder from about 4 feet t « 4 feet
2 inches. Head short and blunt, with a slightly convex profile. Horns
of male enormously expanded and flattened at the base, separated from
one another merely by a narrow strip of skin covered with short hair ;
curvature at first outwards, then downwards and slightly backwards, and
finally upwards and a little forwards, their tips terminating in the plane
of the eyes; in colour pale yellowish-olive at the bases, but black at the
tips, which are quite smooth and cylindrical. Horns of female with the
same general curvature. The greater part of the head and body covered
with 'k- dense coat of long and coarse hair, which is curly and -somewhat
matted at the shoulders, but elsewhere long and straight, hanging down
on the flanks to below the level of the knees and hocks; on the neck and
withers it forms a kind of matted mane, the forehead has a distinct tuft,
and there is a long fringe on the chin, throat, and chest, although no dewlap
is developed on the muzzle and lower portion of the limbs, as well
as on the strip of skin between the horn% shorter and finer than elsewhere ;
a soft woolly under-fur at the bases of the longer hairs which is shed in
summer. General colour of pelage very dark brown, becoming still darker
or even blackish on the forehead, the throat-fringe, and the sides of the
body ; a saddle-shaped 'patch of matted hair on the middle of the back,
as well as the short hair between the horns, on the muzzle, and on the
limbs below the knees and hocks, huffish or yellowish-white.
There is no evidence that the musky odour to which the animal owes