36 MAMMALIA. 
In the skull the frontals are broader than long. The intermaxille 
are very short, triangular, not reaching nearly to the nasal bones. 
The head, crown and shoulders covered with longer curled hair ; 
dewlap none ; teats four ma square. Skull, t. 4. f. 1, 2. 
The flesh smells of musk, hence called Bisam, which has been 
changed mto Bison. See Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. 247. 
Bison, H. Smith, Griff. A. K. iv. 182; Fischer, Syn. 651. 
Bison, Bojanus, N. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xiii.; Owen, Brit. Foss. 
Mam. 491, 1846. 
Bison, sp., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 
Urus, sp., Owen, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1843, 232. 
Aurochs, sp., Cuv. Ann. Mus. xii. 379; Oss. Foss. iv. 
Bonassus, sp., Wagner. 
Bos y. Bison, Sundevall, Pecora, 78. 
+ Tarsi elongate, fore and hind quarters subequal. 
1. Bison Bonassus. The Bison. 
Fur blackish brown, short; of neck and shoulders longer, of 
chin and throat, elongate, formimg a dependent mane; fore and 
hind legs subequal; tarsi elongate.—Bos Bison, Linn. S. N. xii. 
Bos (Bison) Bison, H. Smith in Griffith A. K. v. 893; Fischer, 
Syn. 654; Sundevall, Pecora, 203; Baér. Bull. Petersb. i. 53. 
Bos urus, Bodd. Elench. 1788; L. H. Bojanus, Comm. Nov. Act. 
Acad. Nat. Cur. xii. 414. t. 20, 28; Schreb. Saugth. t. 295; 
Desm. Mamm. 498; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 497; Hichw. Zool. 
Spec. iii. 342. t. ; Vollborth, Dissert. 1. fig. 
Bos Bison Aurochs, Lesson, Nov. Tab. R. A. 184. 
Bos Taurus Urus, Gmelin, S. N. 1. 202; Pallas, Zool. Ross. 
Asiat. 1. 242. 
Bos Bonassus, Brisson, Reg. A. 84; Linn. S. N. xiii. 99; Gme- 
lin, S. N.1. 99; Eral. Syst. 235. 
Bison Europeus, Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, 126. 
Bos Taurus c. Bison (Der Europaische Bison), Donnd. Zool. 
Beytr. 687. 
Bos Bison seu Bonassus, Wagner, Schreb. 1481, t. 295, 295 ps. 
Bison Urus, Gray, Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 55; Turner, Proc. 
Z. Soc. 1848. 
Bison jubatus, Plinit Hist. Nat. vii. ec. 15. 
Bison, Gesner, Quad. 31; Aldrov. Bisulc. 353. f. 355, 356; Jon- 
ston, Quad. t. 17. 16; Nic. Hussoviani de Bisontis Cracov. 
1525, 12; Herberstein, Rer. Moscow. Comm. Basil. 1556, 109. 
fig.; Gulibert de Bove Lituano, 1781, 30. fig.; Zimmer. Geog. 
Zool, ii, 84. 
