. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. A. G. Nathorst, of the Natural History Museum of Stock-holm, made important and valuable contributions to the lifehistory of Ovibos wardi. On the barren, rocky hillsides andlevel upland pastures surrounding Scoresby Sound and Liver-pool Bay, from Latitude 70° to about Latitude 74°, the expe-dition found Musk-Ox in herds of from three to sixty-sevenindividuals, until the total number observed amounted tobetween two hundred and thirty and two hundred and the first time this remarka
. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. A. G. Nathorst, of the Natural History Museum of Stock-holm, made important and valuable contributions to the lifehistory of Ovibos wardi. On the barren, rocky hillsides andlevel upland pastures surrounding Scoresby Sound and Liver-pool Bay, from Latitude 70° to about Latitude 74°, the expe-dition found Musk-Ox in herds of from three to sixty-sevenindividuals, until the total number observed amounted tobetween two hundred and thirty and two hundred and the first time this remarkable species was photographedin its wild haunts, by Professor Nathorst, Mr. Johannes Mad-sen and Mr. E. Nilson, and with very gratifying success. Ofthese pictures the most perfect is that which shows the leaderof the expedition closely approaching a herd. Professor Nathorst states that to the leeward of a herd, theodor of the animals was noticeable at a distance of 100 metres,but that when a freshly slain animal is promptly and properlyeviscerated, the flesh is free from musky flavors, and W^ wtb > -^wsm-^aBiX-iK I
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