THE SELOFS COLLECTION. 93 



Order UNGULATA. 



Family BOVID^. 



Subfamily BOVINE. 



AMEKICAN BISON. 

 Bison bison bison. 



Bison biso)i, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 72, 1758; ed. 12, vol. i. 



p. 99, 1766 ; Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 5, p. 81, 1891. 

 Bos (Bison) bison, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 435, 1910. 

 Bos biso7i bison, Lydekker, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. i. p. 38, 



1913. 



The American Bison is re]n"esentc'd in tlie Collection by a skull 

 picked up near Cody City, Wyoming. 



Horn measurements : — length on outside curve IS ; circum- 

 ference 12 ; greatest width inside 20^ ; spread fi'om tip to tip 23|. 



Typical locality, Texas. 



450 —19.7.15.38. Skull. November, 1897. Cody City, Wyoming. 



Subfamily CAPRINE. 

 SARDINIAN MOUFLON. 



OVIS MUSIMON. 



Ovis musimon, Schreber (ex Pallas), Siiugthiere, vol. v. pi. cclxxxviii. A, 



1788. 



Size small, height at shoulder about 27 inches. Horns of 

 medium build, curving forwards, suggesting the condition met 

 with in the Argali ; good horns from 30 to 38| inches in length. 



The best horns of the following series are those of No. IJ). 7. 



