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be liefest rel^itetl to the common elk of North America {Cervus 

 Canadevsis, Briss.), although it displays several characters which 

 distinguish it from all other species, living or fossil, hitherto in- 

 troduced into the systems. Judging from the skull, the animal 

 was larger than our common elk. 



Locality,- — The bones of this fossil elk are not unfrequently 

 found in the celebrated morass near the Ohio river. Big-boner 

 lick, in company with the bones of the mastodon. Some fossil 

 bones were observed by Dr Bigsby in Canada, which, from de- 

 signs in his possession, are judged to have belonged to the fossil 

 elk. 



Place in the Geological series. — Such as indicated by the 

 above mentioned locality. 



Genus Bos. 



B. bombifronsj Harlan, 



Fauna Americana, p. 271 ; skull of a fossil Ox, Wistar, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc 

 vol, i. new series, p. 379, pi. xi. figs. 11 and 12. 



This fossil species displays considerable analogies in such 

 portions of the skeleton as are known, to the bison {Bos Ameri- 

 canus) or common buffalo of the United States ; but the form 

 of the skull, and peculiar disposition of the horns in the fossil, 

 distinguish it as a nondescript species. 



Locality. — Big-bone-lick and other similar morasses. The 

 fossil teeth of this species are very common. 



B. latifronsj Harlan, 



Fauna Americana, p. 273; Cuv. Anim. Foss. Ist ed. vol. iv. pi, 3, fig. 3, Broad. 

 headed Fossil Os. 



This specimen, a mutilated skull of large dimensions, is in 

 the cabinet of the Am. Philos. Soc. Philad. It resembles in 

 many respects the skull of the Auroch, {Bos tirus, Cuv.) The 

 horn is twenty-eight inches in circumference at its base. 



Locality. — State of Kentucky. According to Cuvier, similar 

 fossil skulls have been found in Europe, on the borders of the 

 Bhine, near to Cracovie in Bohemia, &c. 



B. pailasii^ Dekay, 

 Ann. of the Lye. of Nat. Hist. N. York, vol. ii. p. 280, pi. 6. 

 Among a large collection of fossils presented to the Lye. of 



