. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . Ovihos woschattis, De Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816, p. 76; Desmarest, Mammalogic, vol. ii. p. 492■^^^-f*\ 1, (1822); H. Smith, in Griffiths .-/wW/ V Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 373 (1827) ;^. Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amcr. p. 275 ^^ (1829) ; Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 137 ; Grav, List Mamw. Brit. 153 (1843), Cat. Uiigulata p. 43 (1852), Cat. RumimiutsBrit. Mus. p. 32 (1872) ; Dawkins,Brit. Pleist. Mamm. pt. v. {Pal. ), Quart. Journ. Gcol. Soc. vol.^i-fW- xxxix. p. 575 (1883); Lydekker, CV/A Fig.
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . Ovihos woschattis, De Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816, p. 76; Desmarest, Mammalogic, vol. ii. p. 492■^^^-f*\ 1, (1822); H. Smith, in Griffiths .-/wW/ V Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 373 (1827) ;^. Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amcr. p. 275 ^^ (1829) ; Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 137 ; Grav, List Mamw. Brit. 153 (1843), Cat. Uiigulata p. 43 (1852), Cat. RumimiutsBrit. Mus. p. 32 (1872) ; Dawkins,Brit. Pleist. Mamm. pt. v. {Pal. ), Quart. Journ. Gcol. Soc. vol.^i-fW- xxxix. p. 575 (1883); Lydekker, CV/A Fig. 28.—Head of male Greenland Musk-Ox. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt. ii. p. 38(Rowland Ward, Records of Bie dime.) / nn \ -nt rr 1 ,■ r,i- ^ -^ * (1885); Newton, Fcrteljrata of Pliocem Deposits of Britain [Mem. Gcol. Surv. United Kingdom), p. 22 (1891);Feilden, Zoologist, ser. 3, vol. xix. p. 41 (1893) ; Ward, Records of BigGame, p. 260 (1896). Ovd)os pallantis, H. Smith, in Griffiths Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. ^^75(1827). Wild Oxen,Sheep^ ^^«(^ MUSK—OX. Failished, byRowlaniWofd-Ltd. Greenland Musk-Ox 143 Bos pi///as/\ De Kay, y^////. Lye. Neiv Tori, vol. ii. p. 29 (1828), mCBaer, 1823. Bos canaliciilatiis., Fischer, Mem. Acad. Moscou, vol. iii. p. 287 (1834). Bubaliis inoschatiis, Owen, Qjjiirt. Joiini. Geo/. Soc. vol. xii. p. 124(1856). Plate XI. Characters.—Height of male at shoulder from about 4 teet to 4 feet2 inches. Head short and blunt, with a slightly convex profile. Hornsof male enormously expanded and flattened at the base, separated tromone another merely by a narrow strip ot skin covered with short hair ;curvature at first outwards, then downwards and slightly backwards, andfinally upwards and a little forwards, their tips terminating in the planeof the eyes ; in colour pale yellowish-olive at the bases, but black at thetips, which are quite smooth and cylindrical. Horns of female with thesame general curvature. The greater part ot the head a
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