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THE Zoological Society of London being anxious to obtain living specimens of the musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus), well known as one of the characteristic inhabitants of Arctic regions, the Council of the Society have determined to offer the sum of five hundred pounds for five examples of this animal (two males and three females) delivered alive and in good condition in the Regent's Park Gardens, or a proportionate sum for a smaller number. It has been pointed out by Col. Feilden, in an article upon “Animal Life in East Greenland,” published in The Zoologist for February last, that the southern range of the musk-ox, which was formerly sum supposed to be met with only in Arctic America, has now been satisfactorily shown to extend as far south on the east coast of Greenland as midway between the parallels of 70°and 71° N.L., and that it will in all probability be found in the future to extend along the coast line of Egede Land as far as the sixty-fifth parallel. Thus the abode of the musk-ox is brought comparatively close to Europe, and there seems to be no insuperable difficulty in procuring living specimens. Young muskoxen are very easily reared and tamed, and there could not be any very great difficulty in catching either old or young in Jameson's Land.
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The Musk-Ox. Nature 47, 559 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047559a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/047559a0