Ovibos. De Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, i8i6, p. 76. Tvpe B. 

 i>ii)Si/ia/iis, Zimm. 

 Size medium; neck short; muzzle hairy save a naked, triangular 

 space between the nostrils; no face glands; tail rudimentary; hoofs 

 broad, asymmetrical; lateral hoofs large; flesh between hoofs covered 

 with hair. Both sexes horned; largest in male, those of latter in 

 adults, approximating at base, beginning near to the occiput, spread- 

 ing nearly to the eyes, flattened and grooved at base, curving at first 

 outwards and downwards and then upwards at tips. Molars, caprine. 

 Pelage, long, shaggy; uniform coloration. 



69. moschatus. (Bos.), Zimm. Geog. Geschichte, 1780, 11, p. 86. 



pallantis, H. Smith, Griff. Anim. King., iv, 1827, p. 375. 



pallasi, DeKay, Ann. Lye, New York, 11, 1828, p. 29. 



caiialiculatus, Fisch. Mem. Acad. Mosc, iii, 1834, p. 287. 



Type locality. Region about Hudson Bay. 



Geog?-. Distr. Arctic America from Mackenzie River and north 

 of 60th parallel to the north of Greenland, south to Melville Bay and 

 Sabine Island. 



Genl. Char. Those of the genus. 



Color. Dark brown, blackish on head and neck and sides of 

 body in adult males; on middle of back a saddle-shaped patch of yel- 

 lowish white. 



Measurements. Total length, 1878; height at withers, 1250. 



Horns. Length along outer curve, 546-755; width at base, 222- 

 318; tip to tip, 502-762. 



35. Bison. 



I. ?z?; C. °=^; P. 3=3. M. 2^' = 32. 

 4—4' 0-0' 3-3' 3—3 -' 



Bison. H. Smith, Griff. Anim. King., 1827, v, p. 373. Type Bos 



bonasus, Linn. 



Horns cylindrical, thick at base, short, tapering rapidly to a 

 point, directed outward and slightly upward for half their length, 

 then bending abruptly upwards; widely separated from each other and 

 resting on a ridge below the vertex of the skull. Forehead short and 

 wide; eye sockets not far removed from base of horns, and tubular in 

 shape; nasals short and separated by a wide space from the premax- 

 illag. Neural spines of the dorsal vertebrae, and that of the seventh 

 cervical vertebrae very high but descending rapidly in a curve to the 

 lumbars. These support and shape the so-called "hump." Hoofs 



