MAMMALIA. 39 
Wilde Ochsen und Kuhe, Kalm, Amer. ii. 350, 425, iui. 351. 
Amerikanische Bison, Zimmer. Geog. Zool. ui. 89; Schepf. Reise 
Nordamer. ii. 167 ; Pallas, Nord Beytr. i. 5. 
Bison d’Ameérique, Pallas, Act. Acad. Sci. Petrop. 1777, ii. 238. 
Buklel, Ochse, Bison, Wisent, Borowsky, Thier. i. 42; Blumend. 
: Handb. 111. 
Nordamerikanischer Bisam Ochs. 
Var. White.— Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. 283. 
Hab. N. America. 
Male, stuffed in America. Bank of Yellow River. From M. 
Audubon’s Collection. 
OstEoLocy. Skull, t. 4. f. 1, 2. 
Bos Americanus, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 117. t. 10. f. 3, 6. 
Skeleton of male. North America. Presented by the Earl of 
Derby. 
Skeleton of female. N. America. From the Collection of the 
Zoological Society. | 
Hybrid with Bos Taurus. 
Naals Buffalo, Americans; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 496. 
B. Nose ovine, covered with hair, or with a small naked space be- 
tween the rather close converging nostrils. Tail short. Hair 
during the cold season very long, pendent. Living in the 
Mountains or Snowy regions. 
Oxen of the Mountains or Snowy regions, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 
6. PoEPHAGUS. 
Horns subcylindrical, curved outward on the front of the occi- 
pital ndge. Nose hairy, with a narrow bald muffle between the 
nostrils. Hoofs moderately thick, not dilated or expanded on 
the outer side, square, and straight in front. Tail moderate, not 
reaching to the hocks, and covered with long hair; teats 4, nar- 
rowing behind. Perimeum, scrotum, and inside of the thighs and 
armpits naked. Skull: intermaxillaries short, triangular and 
acute behind, not reaching to the nasal bones. 
Poéphagus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 153. 
Bison, sp., H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 3 Fischer, Syn. 651 ; 
Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 
Bos poéphagus (part.), Sundevall, Pecora, 202. 
Professor Sundevall observes, “ Inter tres divisiones generis et 
