. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Ungulates. 222 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES Genus 0 VI BOS. Ovibos, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 76 ; Gray, Cat. Rumi- nants Brit. Mus. p. 31, 1872; Butimeyer, Ahli. schiveiz. pal. Ges. voL iv, p. 103, 1877; Lonnberg, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, pp. 142, 686; PococJc, ibid. 1910, p. 857 ; Kowarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvi, p. 107^1911. Praeovibos, Staudinger, Zentralbl. f. Min. 1908, p. 481, bis. Bosovis, KowarziJc, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvi, p. 107, 1911. Size relatively large, build heavy
. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Ungulates. 222 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES Genus 0 VI BOS. Ovibos, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 76 ; Gray, Cat. Rumi- nants Brit. Mus. p. 31, 1872; Butimeyer, Ahli. schiveiz. pal. Ges. voL iv, p. 103, 1877; Lonnberg, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, pp. 142, 686; PococJc, ibid. 1910, p. 857 ; Kowarzik, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvi, p. 107^1911. Praeovibos, Staudinger, Zentralbl. f. Min. 1908, p. 481, bis. Bosovis, KowarziJc, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxvi, p. 107, 1911. Size relatively large, build heavy, and limbs stout, with broad and short cannon-bones, and wide main hoofs, of which one in each foot is unsymmetrical to the other. 'No foot-. FiG. 55.—The Musk-Ox {Ovibos moschatus). glands; face-glands and lachrymal pits for their reception apparently either absent or present; muzzle hairy, w4th the ex- ception of a small bare triangular muffle between the nostrils; usually four teats, but occasionally (teste Kowarzik) only two ; tail rudimentary ; main hoofs short, wide, and unsymmetrical, with the intervening cleft hairy, and lateral hoofs large. Horns coarsely fibrous in structure, closely approximated in adult males on the forehead, where their bases, which terminate in nearly straight lines, extend from above the orbits nearly to the occiput; their direction being at first outwards and downwards, and then upwards at the smooth. 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 British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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