MAMMALIA. 39 



Wilde Ochsen und Kuhe, Kalm, Amer. ii. 350, 425, iii. 351. 

 Amerikanische Bison, Zimmer. Geog. Zool. ii. 89 ; Schoepf. Reise 



Nordamer. ii. 167 ; Pallas, Nord Beytr. i. 5. 

 Bison d'Amerique, Pallas, Act. Acad. Sci. Petrop. 1777? ii. 238. 

 Buklel, Ochse, Bison, Wisent, Borowsky, Thier. i. 42; Blumenb. 



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. 



OSTEOLOGY. 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 ridge. 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. Perineum, scrotum, and inside of the thighs and 

 armpits naked. Skull: intermaxillaries short, triangular and 

 acute behind, not reaching to the nasal bones. 



Poephagus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 153. 



Bison, sp., H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. ; Fischer, Syn. 651 ; 



Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 

 Bos poephagus (part.), Sundevall, Pecora, 202. 



Professor Sundevall observes, " Inter tres divisiones generis et 



