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 GENUS BOS. 



"Bison or American Ox Bos Americanus."= Bos bison Linn., Syst. Nat. 

 1758, J2.=os americanus Gmeliu, Syst. Nat., 1788, 2o$.=Bison 

 americanus H. Smith, Griff. Cuv., v, 1827, yj^.=^Bison bison (Linn.) 

 H. Smith, A. O. U. Code. 



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GENUS TAPIR. 



"Long-nosed Tapir Tapir Americanus."=Tapirus terrestris (Linn.) Cuv. 

 of South America. The N. American, (Mexican and Central American) 

 forms, Tapirus bairdi and T. dowi were both described under his genus 

 Elasmognathus by Prof. Gill, the former in the Proc. Acad. N. Sci., 

 Phila., 1865, 183, the latter in the Amer. Jour. Sci., 1870, 142. Elasmog- 

 nathus is considered by the best American authorities as a strongly char- 

 acterized genus. 



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 GENUS SUS. 



"Mexican Hog or Peccary Sus tajassu."=Sus tajacu Linn., Syst. Nat., 

 1766, 103. The Dicotyles torquatus Cuv. is a synonym. Ord's spelling, 

 "tajassu," is original, perhaps unintentional. See Alston (Biol. Cent. 

 Amer., 1879 '82, 107) for discussion of this subject. Dicotyles augulatus 

 Cope (Amer., Nat., 1889, 147) is the Texan representative of this genus. 



"Darien Hog or Warree Sus This is another instance where 



Ord's apparent hesitation to impose a possible synonym deprives him of 

 the honor of naming an anonymous species. Cuvier, in 1817, gave this 

 animal the name Dicotyles labiatus. See my note (infra) for page 312. 



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 GENERA MONODON, PHYSETER, DELPHINUS. 



Owing to the involved condition of the classification and synonymy of 

 the Cetacecz, any attempt on the part of the author to unravel the mys- 

 teries of this section of Ord's list would involve useless expenditure of 

 time and space. 



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'Arctic Walrus." 



The first paragraph relating to this animal is nearly a literal trans- 

 lation of Molineux Shuldham's account, published in 1775 in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions (vol. xlv, p. 249). Before Ord's day the Walrus 

 had been exterminated in the St. Lawrence region. A live specimen 

 was taken in the Straits of Belle Isle in 1869. See J. A. Allen, N. Am. 

 Pinn., 1880, 67 69. 



