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Family bovidae. 



For a recent account of the American Bovidae see Lydekker, 

 Wild oxen, sheep and goats of all lands, London, 1898. 



Genus BISON Hamilton Smith. 



1827. Bison Hamilton Sjiith, Griffith's Cuvier, Animal king- 

 dom, V, p. 373. Type. — Bos bison Linnaeus. 



* Bison bison (Linnaeus) . 



1758. \_Bos'\ bison Linnaeus, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 72. 



1885. Bison americamcs True, Proc. LT. S. nat. mus., vii 

 (1884), p. 592. 1885. 



1888. B[iso?i] bison Jordan, Manual of the vertebrate ani- 

 mals of the northern United States, 5th ed., p. 337. 



Type locality. — Mountains of southeastern United States. 



Bison bison athabascae Ilhoads. 



1898. Bison bison athabascae Rhoads, Proc. acad. nat. 



sci. Phila., (1897), p. 498. January 18, 1898. 

 Type locality. — Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie, Canada. 



Genus OVIBOS Blainville. 



1816. Ovibos Blainville, Bull. soc. pliilom., p. 76. Type. — 

 Bos tnoschatus Zimmermann. 



The genus Ovibos has been removed from the typical Bovidae to 

 form, together with the Asiatic Budorc<is, the subfamily Ovibovi- 

 nae (Matschie, Sitzungsber. der Gesellsch. naturforsch. Freunde 

 zu Berlin, 1898, pp. 30-31.) 



* Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann). 



1780. Bos inoschatus Zimmermann, Geogr. Geschichte, ii, 



p. 86. 

 1822. Ovibos moschatus Desmarest, Mammalogie, ii, p. 492, 



