Musk-ox, bison, sheep, and goat . of the sheep;while its short and wide canon-bones are likethose of the ox, and differ widely from eithersheep or goat. The hoofs are large, with curvedtoes and somewhat concave underneath, like thecaribou hoof, which facilitates climbing rockyridges and scraping away the snow from theironly food, the lichen and the moss, for whichpurpose their horns are also admirably Rhodes has advanced the theory of theexistence of a transition between the musk-oxand the bison, but the structure of the molarteeth and the rudimentary tail convince Profes-sor R. Ly
Musk-ox, bison, sheep, and goat . of the sheep;while its short and wide canon-bones are likethose of the ox, and differ widely from eithersheep or goat. The hoofs are large, with curvedtoes and somewhat concave underneath, like thecaribou hoof, which facilitates climbing rockyridges and scraping away the snow from theironly food, the lichen and the moss, for whichpurpose their horns are also admirably Rhodes has advanced the theory of theexistence of a transition between the musk-oxand the bison, but the structure of the molarteeth and the rudimentary tail convince Profes-sor R. Lydekker, perhaps the foremost scientificauthority, of the impossibility of there being anymanner of relationship between the two , the musk-ox is of the genus Ovi- 76 The Musk-ox BUS, divided into O. moschatus, the Barren Groundsand Greenland type, the O. wardi (Lydekker),and O. bombifrons, otherwise known as the Har-lans musk-ox, an extinct type that, in a word,differed from the present living type largely in. Forefoot of Barren Grounds Musk-ox. % actual size shape of the horns, which did not have the down-ward curve of those in existence, nor did thecurve of the horns come closely to the head asthey do now. Until 1898 O, moschatus was theonly existing type known to either hunters orscientists. In that year, however. LieutenantPeary, the Arctic explorer, killed in Bache Pen-
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