Guide to the galleries of mammals in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum.

  • British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Guide to the galleries of mammals in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Other cattle shown in the Saloon are the small Philippine Buffalo or Tamarau, B. [_Buhahis\ mindorensis (1044), and likewise the still smaller Anoa, B. \_Anoa'\ depressicornls (1045), ot‘ Celebes—the latter, which occupies a case to itself, beino- the most diminutive member of the Oxen ; the Bison B. [i7zC’coi] honasus (1034), orio-inally a native of the large forests of Europe, l)ut now restricted to the C^aucasus and the forest of Bialowicza in Lithuania ; the American Bison Fig. 44. Miisk-Ox. B. hlson (1035) ; and the Tibetan Yak B. [Foeplia- gus\ grunniens (1033). The Musk-Ox, Ovihos moschatvs (1047, fig. 44), is repre- sented by a skeleton in case 45* and stuffed specimens in case 45. Sheep form a small group, typically characterized by their thick, heavy, and transversely-ridged horns, curved spirally outwards, and their peculiar physiognomy. The specimens are in the large case (No. 47) placed against the north wall of the Saloon, and also in the separate case No. 46, on the top of which are horns, the remainder being arranged on the walls. The most wmrthy of note are the numerous races of the Great [Case 45.] [Gases 46 & 47.]
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