. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. i38 Animal Life serve to prove that at an earlier epoch of the earth's history their range was much more extensive. Their general colour—sandy in summer and dirty white in winter—? harmonises admirably with their natural surroundings; and to protect them from the piercing winter cold of their native steppes, saigas at that season are clad in a fur coat of great thickness and warmth. " A still more effective ' motoring-coat' is donned all the year round by Another. the Musk-Ox, 'although the winter garb, the remains of w
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. i38 Animal Life serve to prove that at an earlier epoch of the earth's history their range was much more extensive. Their general colour—sandy in summer and dirty white in winter—? harmonises admirably with their natural surroundings; and to protect them from the piercing winter cold of their native steppes, saigas at that season are clad in a fur coat of great thickness and warmth. " A still more effective ' motoring-coat' is donned all the year round by Another. the Musk-Ox, 'although the winter garb, the remains of which are seen hanging in ragged flakes in. GREENLAND MUSK-OX (Ovibos From the specimen (a male) lately living the present photograph, is thicker and more shaggy than that of summer. When the accompanying photograph was taken—in the early part of last summer or late spring—the animal looked fit and thriving. Unfortunately it did not long survive, and there is at the present time no living specimen of its kind in the kingdom. When first received at Woburn Abbey a few years ago, this musk-ox was a tiny little creature without trace of horns. Together with a comrade whose tenure of life in captivity was of the shortest, it was brought from Clavering Island, on the east coast of Greenland, and during the greater part of its sojourn at Woburn grew with great rapidity. At the time of its death the bases of the horns had met in the middle line of the forehead, although they would have increased somewhat in vertical depth had the creature lived longer. " The Greenland Musk-Ox (Ovibos moscliatus wardi) represents a race apart from the typical Canadian animal, being distinguished, among other features, by the presence of a certain amount of white on the forehead. Musk- oxen, like saigas, were once found in Britain, although not perhaps at the same time, their occupancy having taken place when a large portion of our islands was covered with an ice- sheet like that of their nat
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