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from other parts of North America consist of the specimens already men- 
tioned as obtained from the ice-cliffs of Eschscholtz Bay. These, however, 
as well as those from California, belong mainly, as will be shown later, 
to a smaller animal than the remains from which Bison latifrons was first 
described. 
In addition to the above there are described in the following paper several 
fragments of lower jaws and a skull from California, a horn-core from the 
Tatlo River, Alaska, an imperfect skull, and a metacarpus from the valley 
of the Yukon, and two entire horn-cores from Adams County, Ohio. The 
latter belong to the large species first described by Peale, the others to 
the smaller extinct bison of Western and Northwestern North America. 
3.— DESCRIPTION OF THE EXtTINcT SPECIES. 
BISON LATIFRONS (Haran) Lerpy. 
Great Extinct American Bison. 
Bos latifrons HARLAN, Fauna Americana, 273, 1825; Edinb. New Philos. Journ. XVII, 359, 1834; Med. 
and Phys. Res., 276, 1835; Trans. Geol. Soc. Penna. 1835, 71.— Cooprr, Month. Am. Journ, 
Geol., 1831, 174. — DeKay, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1828, 286; New York Faun. Zool., 
Pt. I. 10, 1842. (Not the Bos laiifrons of Fiscuxr, Bull. Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscow, 1830, p. 81, 
based wholly on Siberian specimens.) 
Bison latifrons Luipy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852, 117; 1854, 89, 210; 1867, 85; Mem. Ext. Sp. 
Amer. Ox, in Smith Contrib., 1852, 8 (pls. i, ii, in part only); Wailes’s Rep. Agric. and Geol. Mis- 
sissippi, 286, 1854; Holmes’s Post-pliocene Fos. of South Carolina, 109, pl. xvii, figs. 15, 16, 1860 
(doubtfully referable to B. latifrons); Ext. Mam. N. Amer. (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Soc., 2d 
Ser., VII), 371, 1869 (in part only) ; Contr. Ext. Vert. Faun. Western Territories, 253, 318, pl. xxviii, 
fies 4-8, 1873, (in part only). 
Urus priscus Bosanus, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., XII, ii, 427, 1827; Owen, Rep. British Assoc., 
1843, 232. — Cat. Fos. Mam. etc., Mus. Roy. Col. Surg., 271, 1845 (the American reference only). 
Bos (Bison) priscus MEYER, Paleologica, 96, 1832. 
Bos priscus Muyrr, Noy. Act. Acad. Nat Cur., 141, 1835 (in part only). — Grepex, Fauna der Vorwelt, 
153, 1847 (in part only).— RUrimeyer, Verhand. Naturf. Gesells. in Berlin, IV, m1, 339, 1865 
(in part only). 
Bos bonasus LiLLJEBORG,. Fauna ofver Sveriges och Norges Ryvoradsdjur, I, 877, 1874 (in part only). 
eles) 
? Bos, Couper, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1842, 190, 216. Owen, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d 
Ser., I, 18, 1847. 
Taurus gigas RAFINESQUE, Enumeration of Remark. Natural Objects, etc., 1831. 
Taurus latifrons RAFINESQUE, Enumeration of Remark. Nat. Obj., etc., 1831; Atlantic Journ., 1832 — 33, 28. 
? Sus americana HARLAN, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, XLIII, 148, pl. iii, fig. 1, 1842. — Couper, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1842, 190, 216. 
