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Family BOVIDAE. 



For a recent account of the American Bovidae see Lydekker, 

 Wild oxen, sheep and goats of all lands, London, 1898. 



Genus BISON Hamilton Smith. 



1827. Bison HAMILTON SMITH, Griffith's Cuvier, Animal king- 

 dom, v, p. 373. Type. Bos bison LINNAEUS. 



* Bison bison (Linnaeus) . 



1758. [JBos] bison LINNAEUS, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 72. 

 1885. Bison americanus TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vn 



(1884), p. 592. 1885. 



1888. JB\i,8ori\ bison JORDAN, Manual of the vertebrate ani- 

 mals of the northern United States, 5th ed., p. 337. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Mountains of southeastern United States. 



Bison bison athabascae Rhoads. 



1898. Bison bison athabascae RHOADS, Proc. acad. nat. 



sci. Phila., (1897), p. 498. January 18, 1898. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie, Canada. 



Genus OVIBOS Blainville. 



1816. Ovibos BLAINVILLE, Bull. soc. philom., p. 76. Type. 

 Bos moschatus ZIMMERMANN. 



The genus Ovibos has been removed from the typical Bovidae to 

 form, together with the Asiatic JBudorcas, the subfamily Ovibovi- 

 nae (Matschie, Sitzungsber. der Gesellsch. naturforsch. Freunde 

 zu Berlin, 1898, pp. 30-31.) 



* Ovibos moschatus (Zimme'rmaim) . 



1780. Bos moschatus ZIMMERMANN, Geogr. Geschichte, n, 



p. 86. 

 1822. Ovibos moschatus Desmarest, Mammalogie, n, p. 492. 



