38 MAMMALIA. 



tt Tarsi short, hinder quarters very low. 



2. BISON AMERICANUS. The AMERICAN BISON. 



Crown with long, crisp hair (in all seasons). The fur dark 

 brown ; hair of head and shoulders elongate, crisp. Tarsus short, 

 hinder quarters very low. Body and tarsus in winter covered 

 with long hair, in summer nearly naked, except in front of body 

 and head. 



Bos Bison, Linn. S. N. i. 99 ; Erxl. Syst. 233 ; Schreb. Saugth. 



t. 299; Blumb. Handb. 121. 

 Bos Bison Americanus, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 895; Fischer, 



Syn. 653; Sundevall, Pecora, 203; Hodgson, Journ. Asiat, 



Soc. Eeng. x. 1841, 912. 

 Bos Americanus, Gmelin, S. N. i. 204 ; Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. 



v. 24; Reg. Anim. i. 270 ; Ossem. Foss. iv. 117. t. 11; Desm. 



Nouv. Diet. H. N. iii. 531; Mamm. 496; Ency. Meth. t. 55. 



f. 3 ; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 495, 653 ; Desmoul. Diet. Class. H. 



N. ii. 365 ; Cuvier fy Geoff. Mam. Lith. t. ; Richardson, Fauna 



Bor. Amer. i. 279; Sabine, Frank. Journey, 668; H. Smith, 



Griffith A. K. iv. 401. t. , v. 895 ; Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. 



i. 242; Owen, Brit. Fossil Mam. 

 Bison Americanus, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 49; Turner, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1849. 



Taurus Mexicanus, Hernand. Mex. 587- fig. (1651). 

 Taureau Sauvage, Hennipen, Nouv. Decouv. i. 186. fig. (1699). 

 Taurus Ouivirensis, Nieremb. Hist. Nat. 181. fig. from Hernand. 

 Tauri vaccseque Quivirae, Fernand. Anim. 10. 

 Tauri novi or bis, Nieremb. Hist. Nat. 182. 

 Armenta, Lact. Amer. 303. fig. from Hernand. 

 Urus Bison /3. indicus, Bison Catesbeji, Klein, Quad. 13. 

 Bison, Ray, Syn. Quad. 71 ; Pennant, Arct. Zool. i. 1; Long, 



Exped. iii. 68. 



BuiFelo, Laws. Carol. 115. fig. ; Brick. North Carol. 107. fig. 

 Buffalo, Catesby, Carol. App. 27. fig. App. t. 20; Harmon. 



Journey, 415; Franklin, First Journey, 113 (110. fig. of Buf- 

 falo Pound). 



Bceuf du Canada, Charlev. Nouv. Fr. iii. 131. 

 American Oxen, Dobb's Hudson's Bay, 41. 

 American Bison, Shaw, Zool. ii. 394. t. 206, 207 ; Knight, Mus. 



Anim. Nat. f. 759-762. 

 American Bull, Penn. Syn. 8. t. 2. f. 2. 



American Wild Ox or Bison, Warden's United States, i. 248. 

 Bison (d'Amerique), Buff on, H. N. Supp. iii. 64. t. 5; F. Cuvier, 



Mam. Lithog. t. , adult, young, and very young. 

 Bison, Mutter, Magaz. i. 186 ; Bewick, Hist. Quad. 43. fig. 



