. Supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 [microform] : containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. cxc APPENDIX. :!. large lioriicd animal inhabiting the land, and certainly not a rcin-dccr. It i» probable that the individuals which extend their Hummer migration to the north-cast of Baffin's Bay, retire during the winter to the continent ol' America, or to its neighbourhood, as the s])ecies is unknown in South Green- land. There can be no doubt that it was the head o
. Supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 [microform] : containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. cxc APPENDIX. :!. large lioriicd animal inhabiting the land, and certainly not a rcin-dccr. It i» probable that the individuals which extend their Hummer migration to the north-cast of Baffin's Bay, retire during the winter to the continent ol' America, or to its neighbourhood, as the s])ecies is unknown in South Green- land. There can be no doubt that it was the head of an animal of the present species which is described in the Fauna Granlandka to have been conveyed on a piece of ice to the shores of Greenland and which is there erroneously con- jectured to have belonged to the Bos Grunniens. It is a curious fact, however, that although none of the Greenlanders had ever seen the animal to which the head belonged, they should have given it the same name of Uinimak, as is mentioned by O. Fabricius; this fact may seem to justify an inference that the animal itself was known to them by tradition; and may thus, in some measure, corroborate the general belief that their ancestors came from a country to the north and west of the one which they now inhabit. The flesh of the bulls which were killed by the expedition was generally liked, although tasting strongly of musk. The weight of each individual exceeded 700 lbs., yielding about 400 lbs. of meat; the head and skin weighed 130 lbs.; they stood 10^ hands high at the withers. A very correct repre- sentation of the bull is given in a plate, from a drawing of Lieutenant Beechey's. The projection of the orbits of the eyes in this species is very remarkable, when compared with others of the same genus; it is probably a provision to carry the eye clear of the great quantity of hair which the severity of the cold renders necessary in such high latitudes. 9. Cervus Tarandus. Rein-deer. Inhabit the North
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