. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. If â '.I â I \k 230 ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS absolute smoothness, which extends to the very points. The horns of an aged bull of course vary in size, very much as do the horns of all other animals, but the differ- ence is chiefly noticeable in the spread of the boss, thick- ness of horn at the median line, and width of ) MfSK-OX III' The largest head I killed and brought out measures from top to bottom of the boss at the median line ich^
. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. If â '.I â I \k 230 ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS absolute smoothness, which extends to the very points. The horns of an aged bull of course vary in size, very much as do the horns of all other animals, but the differ- ence is chiefly noticeable in the spread of the boss, thick- ness of horn at the median line, and width of ) MfSK-OX III' The largest head I killed and brought out measures from top to bottom of the boss at the median line ich^ inches, while the length of horn from median line to point measures 27-^; width of crevice, i J inches; thickness of horn at crevice, 3^ inches. This, the Indians said, was an unus- ually large one, and certainly the crevice at the base was wider than in any other bull I saw of the forty musk- oxen we killed on the trip. In the cow the width of the boss does not vary ver\- much, and would average less than half of the width of. 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 Whitney, Caspar, 1862?-1929. New York : Harper
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