c o Oxen 



2. Falconer's Ox — Bos falconer: [Extinct) 



Leptobos fa/coneri, Riitimeyer, Ab/i. schweiz. pal. Gcs. vol. v. p. 157 

 (1878) ; Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Ma/urn. Brit. Mas. pt. ii. p. 36 (1885). 



Characters. — Imperfectly known, but apparently distinguished from the 

 last species by the more slender form of the skull of the male and the 

 more upright direction of the horn-cores, of which the bases alone are 

 preserved. 



Distri/)iitioii. — India during the earlv Pliocene period, the remains 

 occurring in the freshwater deposits of the Siwalik Hills. An allied 

 species, Bos fraseri., said to be still more nearly allied to the banting, occurs 

 in the Plistocene deposits of the Narbada \'allev, India. 



iv. The Bisontine Group — Srn-GENrs Bison 



Bison, H. Smith, in Cirithth's Aninuil Kingdom., vol. v. p. "i^j-i, (1827), 

 as a sub-genus; Gray, Cat. Un^nlata Brit. Mas. p. 35 (1852). 



Urus., Bojanus, Nova Acta Acaii. Ccvs. Leop.-Car. vol. xiii. pp. 413 

 and 428 (1827) ; Swainson, Classif. QiiaJriipeds, p. 279 (1835) ; ncc H. 

 Smith, 1827. 



Poep/iagiis., Gray, List Manini. Brit. Miis. p. 153 (1843), Cat. Vngulata 

 Brit. Mils. p. 39 (1852). 



Bonasus., Wagner, in Sclireber's Sai/gi't/iicrc, vo\. iv. p. 515 (1844), as 

 a sub-genus. 



Har/anas, Owen, Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, 1846, p. 94. 



Characters. — Tvpicallv the horns cylindrical, widelv separated trom one 

 another, and situated on a ridge below the extreme vertex of the skull, so 

 that in a front view the summit of the crest of the true occiput is visible ; 

 the forehead of the skull relatively short, wide, and more or less convex, 

 the interval between the bases of the horn-cores and the sockets of the eyes 



