SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Icon. Buffon. Fred. Cuv. Nobis. 



Habitat. In a wild state, India, SfC. Domesticated, 

 Persia, the Levant, Turkey, Hungary, Italy, and North 

 Africa. 



For the varieties and breeds we refer to the text. 



Sub-genus II. — Bison. Forehead slightly arched, much 

 broader than high ; herns placed before the salient line of 

 the frontal crest, the plane of the occiput forming an ob- 

 tuse angle with the forehead, and semi-circular in shape ; 

 fourteen or fifteen pair of ribs ; the shoulders rather ele- 

 vated ; the tail shorter; the legs more slender ; the tongue 

 blue ; and the hair soft and woolly. 



893. 5. B. Bison (the Bison.) Adult male six feet 

 high at the shoulder, and ten feet three inches from nose 

 to tail; head broad ; horns distant, short, robust, slightly 

 turned forwards, dark coloured ; forehead arched ; eye 

 large, full dark ; body with fourteen pair of ribs ; mammcB 

 disposed in a square; anterior half of the animal, except- 

 ing the chafFron, covered with a heavy coat of mixed 

 woolly and long harder hair, a foot long in winter, shorter 

 in Slimmer ; the woolly gray, the long browner ; throat 

 and breast bearded. 



B. Bison, Le Bison, G. Cuvier, Gilibert. Bison, Pliny. 

 Bison, Bisam. Wizend of the Germans. Subr, Polish. 

 Aurochs of the Modern Germans. 



Icon. Ridinger. Gilibert. Nobis. 



Habitat. At present the forests of Southern Russia 

 in Asia, Carpathian and Caucasian Mountains, and (he 

 Desert of Kobi. 



894. 6. * B. Gaums (the Gaur). Adult male six feet 

 high at the shoulder ; twelve feet long to the end of 

 tail: above seven feet six inches in girth; head resem- 



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