16 MAMMALIA. 
Colonel Hamilton Smith divides the Bovee into three tribes, 
thus: 1.Bubalus. 2. Bison. 3. Taurus.—Griffith, A. K.v. 1827; 
Fischer, Syn. u. 651. 
Professor Sundevall arranges the genera of this subtribe thus : 
A. 1. Anoa. 2. Bos. Subdivided thus: a. Bos. 8. Poephagus 
and Bubalus. y. Bison. B. 3. Ovibos.—Kongl. Vet. Akad. 
Handl. 1846, and in Hornschuch Arch. 1848. 
Mr. Hodgson, in his ‘ Illustrations of the genera of Bovide,’ 
divides the species into the genera—l1. Bos (domesticus). 2. Bibos 
(cavifrons and gaveus). 3. Bison or Bisonius (Americanus and 
poephagus). 4. Bubalus (Arna)—from the character of the skull 
and other parts of the skeleton. See Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng, x. 
449, 1847. 
Mr. Gray, in the Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1846, 229, 
observes, “‘ The Bovee consist of the genera Bos, Bibos, Bison, 
Bubalus and Anoa, with a naked moist muffle, and Poephagus 
and Ovibos with a hairy ovine muzzle. 
*« These genera are well distinguished by the form of the inter- 
maxillaries. In Poephagus (grunniens), Bibos (frontatus and 
Gour), and in Bison ( Urus), they are short, triangular, acute be- 
hind, and not reaching to the nasal, beg gradually shorter in 
proportion from Poephagus to Bison. In Bos (Taurus) and 
Bubalus (Buffelus and Caffer) they are elongate, reaching to the 
suture between the nasal and cheek-bone, and extending furthest 
up in B. Buffelus.” 
A. Muffle broad, moist at the end of the nose. Hair short, rigid, 
adpressed, or short, crisp and woolly. The grinder with a 
well-developed supplementary lobe. The bony part of the 
tail produced, elongated, reaching to the hocks. Living on 
the plains of warm or temperate regions. 
The Oxen of the Plains, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 1849; Ann. & 
Mag. N. H. 1848, 229. 
a. True Oxen. Bodies covered with rather stiff hair. Shoulder 
' proportionate to the haunches ; the cannon bone of the hind- 
and fore-legs of equal length. 
True Oxen, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 1849. 
* Intermazillaries elongate, and produced behind and between 
the nasal and cheek bones ; the upper lip bald, callous and 
moist, as wide as the outer edge of the nostrils. 
l. Bos. 
Horns cylindrical, conical, nearly circular at the base, curved 
upwards and outwards, far apart at the base, on the sides of the 
