34 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



91. 8. 7. 217. Skull, with horns. Niti side of Hundes, 

 Tibet ; shot by N. Troup, Esq. Same history. 



91. 8. 7. 218. Skull, with horns. Angirtakshin Pass, 

 Kuen-lun (94° E. 35° N.) ; collected by A. D. Casey, Esq. 



Same history. 



91. 8. 7. 219. Skull, with horns. Kuen-lun ; collected 

 by A. Dalgieish, Esq. Same history. 



91. 8. 7. 220. Skull, with horns. Hundes, Tibet; col- 

 lected by Mr. Troup. Same history. 



12. 10. 31. 85. Skull, with horns (fig. 14). Angirtakshin 

 Pass ; collected by Mr. Dalgieish. Length of horns 38 J, 

 girth 3 8 J, tip-to-tip 26 J inches. The maximum known 

 horn-length is stated to be 39 inches. 



Bequeathed hy A. 0. Huone, Esq., C.B., 1912. 



4. Subgenus BISON. 



Bison, H. Smith, Gt^iffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 378, 1827 ; 



Gray, Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 35, 1852. 

 Urus, Bojanus, Nova Acta Acad. Gees. Leop.-Car. vol. xiii, pp. 413, 



428, 1827 ; Swainson, Classif. Quadrupeds, p. 279, 1843 ; nee 



H. Smith. 

 Bonasue, Wagner, Schreber's Saugtliiere, Su])x>l. vol. iv, p. 515, 1844.. 



Nearly allied to Boephagus, but the long hair concentrated 

 on the head and fore-quarters, where it forms a mane on the 

 neck, a fringe on the throat, and a mantle on the shoulders ; 

 the tail, which reaches to the hocks or somewhat below, tufted 

 only near the tip; and the line of the back falling away 

 more or less markedly towards the hind-quarters. Colour 

 brownish, with a tinge of plum. Skull shorter and wider 

 than in Boephagus, with the orbits more approximated to the 

 bases of the horn-cores and more tubular, the frontal region 

 more convex, and the nasals much shorter and wider. Horns 

 of the same general type, but smaller. Eibs fourteen pairs 

 as in Boephagiis.* 



The range formerly included a large part of Europe and 

 Western North America. 



* Owen {Brit. Boss. Mamm. and Birds, p. 493, 1846, and Anatomy 

 of Vertebrates, vol. ii, p. 462, 1866) stated that there are fifteen pairs 

 in jB. hison ; a statement that has been much copied. See Allen, 

 Mem. Kentucky Geol. Surv. vol. i, pt. 2, p. 2, 1876. 



