40 MAMMALIA. 



prsesertim inter Bos Bubalum et bisontes medius videtur.'' Pe- 

 cora, 202. 



Mr. Turner doubts its distinctness from Bison. Proc. Zool. 

 SGC. 1849. 



1. POEPHAGUS GRUNNIENS. The YAC Or SARLYK. 



Black ; back and tail often white. 



Bos grunniens, Linn. S. N. i. 99 ; Gmelin, S. N. i. 205 ; Erxl. 



Syst. 237 j Zimmerm. Geog. Gesch. ii. 38 ; Schreb. Saugth. 



t. 299 A, B ; Blumb. Abbild. t. 22 ; Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. v. 30 ; 



Reg. Anim. i. 270 ; Oss. Foss. iv. 129. t. 10. f. 13, 14 ; Desm. 



Nov. Diet. H. N. iii. 528; Mamm. 496; Ency. Meth. t. 45. 



f. 3; Desmoul. Diet. Class. H. N. ii. 368, 11; Fischer, Syn. 



Mam. 496, 653 ; Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. i. 348 ; Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1834, 99. 

 Bos (Bison) Poephagus, H. Smith in Griffith A. K. \. 896; 



Fischer, Syn. 658; Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. 1841, x. 912, xi. 282. 

 Bos (Poephagus) grunniens, Sundevall, Pecora, 202. 

 Bison Poephagus, Gray, Cat. Hodgson Coll. B. M. 25 ; Turner, 



Proc. Z. Soc. 1849. 

 Poephagus grunniens, Gray, List Mam. B. M. 153 ; Cat. Osteol. 



Sp. B. M. 55 ; Knowsley Menag. 49. 

 Bisonius Poephagus, Hodgson, J. A. S. Bengal, x. 912. 4/0. 



t. 1. f. 3; Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 289. 

 Bos Poephagus, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 249 ; Nov. Comm. 



Petrop. i. 2. 332 ; Nord Beytr. i. t. 1. 

 Poephagus, ^Elian de Animal, lib. xv. cap. 14, lib. xvi. cap. 11; 



Marco Polo de Region. Orient, lib. i. cap. 62; Rubruquis, 



Hist. General des Voy. vii. 



Buoi e la codo di cavallo, N. Conti, Collect, de Ramusio, i. 340. b. 

 Oxen (used for riding), Ysbr ant's Travels Muscow, 50. tab. ; 



Grew, Mus. Reg. Soc. 26. 

 Vacca grunniens, or Buffle mid dem Pferde schweif, J. G. Gmelin, 



Nov. Comm. Petrop. v. 339. t. 7- 

 Tangutischen Biiffel, Pallas, Nord Beytr. i. t. 1. 1780. 

 Bubuls, Bell, Travels, i. 212. 

 Bcebceli, Witsen, N. en 0. Tart. i. 66. 

 Bubalus cauda equina, Buffle a queue de cheval, Pallas, Act. 



Acad. Petrop. 1777, ii. 232. 

 Vache de Tartarie, Buffon, H. N. xv. 136. 

 Grunting Ox, Bewick, Hist. Quad. 46. 

 Grunting Bull, Penn. Syn. 5. 

 Yac of Tartary, Turner, Account, 186. 1. 10 ; Shaw, Zool. ii. 411. 



t. 213. 

 Svora-Goy or Yak of Tartary, Asiat. Research, iv. 349. t. 



