. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. UNGULATA; OXEIST AND ANTELOPES. 101 which is the same, essentially, as hair. The Oxen or Bovinae have the horns round. Of the Oxen few are more remarkable than the Musk Ox of the Barren Grounds of North America. This FIG. Musk Ox, Ovibos moschatus, Blaiuville. curious animal is about as large as a two-year-old cow, and the body is covered with long brownish black hair. As examples of the typical or true oxen (-Bos), we may mention the domestic ox, and the Buffalo or Bison of our Western plains, which attains the size of a large domestic ox. He
. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. UNGULATA; OXEIST AND ANTELOPES. 101 which is the same, essentially, as hair. The Oxen or Bovinae have the horns round. Of the Oxen few are more remarkable than the Musk Ox of the Barren Grounds of North America. This FIG. Musk Ox, Ovibos moschatus, Blaiuville. curious animal is about as large as a two-year-old cow, and the body is covered with long brownish black hair. As examples of the typical or true oxen (-Bos), we may mention the domestic ox, and the Buffalo or Bison of our Western plains, which attains the size of a large domestic ox. Here also belong the Aurochs of the Cau- o casus, the Cape Buffalo of South Africa, and the Arni of India; the last with horns ten feet from tip to tip. The artiodactyls which have their horns rounded, va- riously curved, ringed, and black, are called Antelopes (Antilope). Of these nearly a hundred species are known, varying in size from the light and graceful Gazelle (Fig. 109) of Northern Africa—not larger than a fawn—to those like the Eland of Africa, which is as bulky as a large ox. Of these all but one, which inhabits North America, and the Chamois (Fig. 108) and one other which inhabit. 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 Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877. New York : Scribner
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