128 KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY. 
Before entering into the description it would be well to give a 
short resume of the history of this animal as given by Allen.”* 
from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, seems to 
his animal found in that locality, 
been found 
The type specimen 
have been the only remains of t 
although remains belonging to Bison americanus have 
there in abundance-——Prot. N.S. Shaler, in 1869, having collected 
something over a thousand specimens from this locality. 
In 1860 Dr. Leidy figured and described a second premolar 
tooth from South Carolina.} 
belong to this species or to Bison latifrons. 
This specimen may 
metatarsal bone from 
The atlas, fragmentary humerus, tibia and 
are, hardly sufficient to determine accurately to 
Darien, Georgia, 
from the description 
what species this material may belong, but 
ld seem that it belongs to Bison antiquus. 
and measurements it wou 
the two speci- 
Below are given the comparative measurements of 
mens: 
ATLAS. 
Darien + Kas. Univ. 
specimen. specimen, 
Transverse axis of brim of rial Gills rate hho Ma aaa alba Asie 133 139 
GierHCHCOTSaWeeIS OL CUD Vics s sc cu\hne rad tern ¥ ordte Faire eM ween 70 68 
Transverse axis of post articular eR gk) oy TR ee ON A 130 128 
Greatest transverse breadth of POLY elena ih a Wcacatew Malwrelhack 240 232 
Greatest ventro-dorsal breadth of POR COE. igs dinkn do Hepa ance hh Loo 99 
Greatest length near the lateral edge of Wing... 6... secre es 12 118 
Length of centrum, GOPSR SOM hil nea ma mertiiwoinMey eine 9 84 70 
Length of centrum, VOMCPe ABPEOV iy wikis vale 4 wit wont Ne wee 59 60 
METATARSAL. 
Greatest lemethey oi wevs epee kien e wlobina se Wiens Fine oon ee Faust. 204 270 
Greatest transverse diameter of DIORA ENC hie wel vay HyK 65 68 
Greatest antero-posterior diameter Ot PLORMMANENC is. 44 es 62 64.5 
Transverse diameter of shaft 3.5 in. from yenafo> than} (combs in 44 45 
Antero-posterior diameter of shaft 3.5 in. from proximal end. . 44 44.5 
Circumference of shaft 3.5 in. from proximal end... oi)... 145 44 
The above remains, with those in the museum here and one 
skull, now in the possession of a-high school in Illinois, and of 
which a cut of the posterior view is given from a photograph fur- 
nished through the kindness of Mr. W. L. Brayton, are all the 
remains of this species that I know of as having been found east 
of the Rocky Mountains. } 
Abundance of these remains have been found in Alaska from 
schholtz Bay and the valley and tributaries of the Yukon river, 
*The American Bisons. Living and Extinct. 
+Holmes’ Post-Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina, p. 109, Dlx wale 
+L have rec ( 
part of the Saline river in Kansas.--S. W. Williston. 
ently examined a portion of a cranium of this species found on the upper 
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