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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 Californiaj belong mainly^ as Avill be shown later. 



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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 

 the Yukon, and two entire horn-cores from Adams County, Ohio. The 

 latter belong to the large species first described by Peale, the others 

 the smaller extinct bison of Western and Northwestern North America. 



3. 



Desceiptiok of the Extinct Species- 



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BISON ^ ATIPRONS (Harlan) Leidy 



Grreat Extinct American Bison. 



Bos latifrom Harlan, Fauna Americanaj 273, 1825 ; Edinb. New Philos. Journ. XYII, 359, 1834 ; Med. 

 and Phys. Kes., 276, 1835; Trans. Geol. Soc. Penna., 1835, 71. — Cooper, Month. Am, Journ, 

 Geol., 1831, 174. — DeKay, Ann. Lye. 'N^^.t. Hist New York, 1828, 286; New York Faun. Zool., 

 Ft. I. 10, 1842; (Not the Bos latifrom of Fischer, Bull. Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscow, 1830, p. 81, 

 based wholly on Siberian specimens.) 



Bkon latlfrons Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852, 117 ; 1854, 89, 210; 1867, 85 ; Mem. Ext. Sp. 

 Amer. Ox, in Smith Contrib., 1852, 8 (pis. i, ii, in part only) ; Wailes's Eep. Agi-ic. and Geol. Mis- 

 sissippi, 286, 1854; Holmes's Post-pliocene Fos. of South Carolina, 109, pi. xvii, figs. 15,16,1860 

 (doubtfully referable to B. latifrons) ; Ext. Mam. N. Amer. (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, Soc, 2d 

 Ser., YH), 371, 1869 (in part only) ; Contr. Ext. Yert. Faun. Western Territories, 253, 318, pL xxviii, 

 figs 4-8, 1873, (in part only). 



Urus priscus Bojanus, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat Cur., XHI, ii, 427, 1827 ;' Owen, Kcp. British Aesoc, 

 1843, 232.— Cat. Fos. Mam. etc., Mus. Eoy. Col. Surg., 271, 1845 (the American reference only). 



Bos (Bison) priscus Meyer, Pala?ologica, 96, 1832. 



Bos priscus Meyer, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat Cur., 141, 1835 (in part only). — Giebel, Fauna der Yorwelt, 

 153, 1847 (in part only). — Rutimeyer, Yerhand. Naturf. Gesells. in Berlin, lY, in, 339, 1865 

 (in part only). 



Bos honasus Lilljeborg,. Fauna ofver Sveriges och Norges Ryggradsdjur, I, 877, 1874 (in part only). 



IBos, Couper, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Phil, 1842, 190, 216. — Owen, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d 

 Ser., I, 18, 1847. 



Taurus gigas Eafinesque, Enumeration of "Remark. Natural Objects, etc., 183L 



Taurus latifrons Rafinesque, Enumeration of Remark. Nat. Obj., etc., 1831 ; Atlantic Joui-n., 1832 ~ 33, 28. 



1 Sus americana Harlan, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, XLHI, 143, pi. iii, fig, 1, 1842. — Couper, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1842, 190, 216. 



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