. The geography of mammals. Fig. 32.—The Musk Ox.(Ovibos moschatus.) Mountains (Fig. 31, p. 157); and the Musk Ox (Ovibos),which ranges over the barren grounds at the extremenorth of the continent, and spreads into Greenland (seeFig. 32). The latter, however, was also found in the northernparts of the Old World until a comparatively recent epoch,geologically speaking. I THE NEARCTIC REGION 159 The Bisons (Fig. 33) are still common to the Nearcticand Palsearctic Region, though now nearly extinct in bothhemispheres. Rodents are very numerous in the Nearctic to the tables here us
. The geography of mammals. Fig. 32.—The Musk Ox.(Ovibos moschatus.) Mountains (Fig. 31, p. 157); and the Musk Ox (Ovibos),which ranges over the barren grounds at the extremenorth of the continent, and spreads into Greenland (seeFig. 32). The latter, however, was also found in the northernparts of the Old World until a comparatively recent epoch,geologically speaking. I THE NEARCTIC REGION 159 The Bisons (Fig. 33) are still common to the Nearcticand Palsearctic Region, though now nearly extinct in bothhemispheres. Rodents are very numerous in the Nearctic to the tables here used, which have beencompiled from Flower and Lydekkers text-book of. >^ f^gi WSSm.
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