Description:
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<jats:italic>Ovibos moschatus</jats:italic>
, more commonly known as the musk-ox, has been described under different names by naturalists as their opinions fluctuated concerning its affinities with the ox, buffalo, or sheep. It is called the musk-ox by all the arctic explorers,
<jats:italic>Bos moschatus</jats:italic>
by Schreber, Zimmermann, Pennant, and Cuvier, musk-buffalo allied to the
<jats:italic>Bubalus Caffir</jats:italic>
of South Africa by Professor Owen,
<jats:italic>Ovibos moschatus</jats:italic>
by De Blainville, Desmarest, Richardson, and M. Lartet. That the latter four naturalists are right in the place they assign to it in the zoological scale, intermediate between
<jats:italic>Ovis</jats:italic>
and
<jats:italic>Bos</jats:italic>
, is proved both by the natural history and the osteology of the animal.
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