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* * *. \^ouRg, mouuted. Same history. 

 43. 11. 28. 1. Immature skin. 



Presented ty the Hudson Bay Co., 1843. 

 94. 4. 15. 1. Head, mounted. Colorado (1878). 



Presented hy the Lord Walsingham, 1894. 



* * * ^ Skeleton (skull exhibited). 



Presented hy the Earl of Derby, about 1848. 

 65. 12. 8. 24. Skeleton, mounted. 



Prese7ited by the Zoological Society, 1865. 

 Qd. 12. 8. 26. Skeleton of female, immature. 



Same history, 

 b^. 11. 22. 102. Skeleton, female (skull exhibited). 



Presented by the Zoological Society, 1850. 

 96. 10. 23. 1. Skeleton, young. Bred in Northumber- 

 land. Presented by C. J. Leyland, Esq., 1896. 

 9. 3. 6. 1. Skull, with horns. Bred at Woburn Abbey. 



Presented by the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 1909. 

 99. 4. 1. 1. Skull, with horns. IST. America. 



Presented by Lady Hall, 1899. 

 2. 8. 2. 18. Skull. Southwood Hills, Assiniboina; col- 

 lected by E. Hollis, Esq. Purchased, 1902. 



B.— Bos bison athabascae. 



Bison bison athabascae, RJioads, Proc. Acad. Pliiladeljjliia, 1897, 

 p. 498 ; Elliot, Siqjj)!. Synop. Mamin. N. Amer. {Zool. Puhl. Field 

 Mus. vol. ii) p. 486, 1901, Checli-List Mamm. N. Amer. [op. cit. 

 voL vi) p. 57, 1905. 



Bos bison athabascae, LydelcJcer, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 90, 

 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 308, 1901, The 

 Ox and Its Kindred, p. 216, 1912 ; Way-cl, Records of Big Game, 

 ed. 6, p. 435, 1910. 



Bison americanus athabascae, Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. {Zool. 

 Puhl. Field Mus. vol. ii) p. 49, 1901. 



Typical locality 50 miles from Fort Eesolution, Great 

 Slave Lake. 



Said to be rather larger and generally darker than the 

 typical race, with the horns longer, and more slender. 

 Colour light brown, shading to dark brown, and becoming 

 nearly black on head, under-parts, and limbs, with the ears 

 and tail-tip black. 



Typically from a spot 50 miles south-west of Fort 



