. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. ql p k 1- 228 ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS erect at all times over the shoulders and the base of the neck. The bones of the musk-ox are massive. The legs have no wool covering beneath the hair, and are very large and not long, though not so short as they appear because of the hair reaching nearly to the l-nees and to the hocks. The hoofs ?.re large, with curved toes, and somewhat con- caved beneath, like the caribou, which enables them to climb the rocky ridges with gr
. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. ql p k 1- 228 ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS erect at all times over the shoulders and the base of the neck. The bones of the musk-ox are massive. The legs have no wool covering beneath the hair, and are very large and not long, though not so short as they appear because of the hair reaching nearly to the l-nees and to the hocks. The hoofs ?.re large, with curved toes, and somewhat con- caved beneath, like the caribou, which enables them to climb the rocky ridges with great fa- cility and to scrape away the snow in their search for lichen and moss. For this purpose they use also their horns, which are admirably hooked for the work. The growth of horns in both bulls and cows is rather in- teresting. They begin by a straight shoot out from the side of the head, exactly like domestic cattle, and for the first year it is impossible to tell the sex by their heads alone. In the second year the bull horn is a little whiter than the cow, and the latter begins to show a downward bend. The cow's horns are about fully developed at the third year, while the bull's are just beginning to spread at the base. This enlargement at the base extends towards the centre of the forehead, meeting in the median line, and showing between the horns a little of the short, curly, grayish hair which sprinkles the entire forehead of the two-year-old musk-ox, but is seen only at this crevice. MUSK-OX HOOF—FRONT VIEW. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Whitney, Caspar, 1862?-1929. New York : Harper
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