SYNOPSIS OF THE 



bling the Common Ox ; forehead more arched ; horns ro- 

 bust, not bent back, spinous processes of the withers, 

 much elevated, externally projecting 7 forehead covered 

 vv^ith whitish wool ; eyes small, pale-blue ; hair smooth, 

 close, shining, brown ; tail short, tufted. 



Le Gaour, Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. vol. ix. Gaur, 

 Dr. Johnson^s Sketches of Indian Sports. B. Gaurus, Nob. 

 Gor of Firdousi, mistaken for the Wild Ass. 



Icon. ■ 



Habitat. Rhamghur district, and other high mountain 

 forests of India, ^Ethiopia? Pliny ^ 4. viii.c. 21. 



895. 7. B. Americanus (American Bison.) Adult male 

 above five feet high at the shoulder, four feet at the 

 croup, eight feet long from nose to tail ; form heavy in 

 front, weak behind ; body with fifteen pair of ribs, and 

 only four Coccigian vertebrse ; eye, round, dark, and full ; 

 chafiVon short; forehead broad; muzzle wide; horns 

 small, round, lateral, black, very distant, turned sideways, 

 and upwards, hair woolly, very abundant on the head 

 and shoulders ; short and close on the hind quarters ; in 

 winter brownish black, in summer lighter ; tail eighteen 

 inches, with long tuft of dark hair. 



B. Americanus, Auctor. B. Bison, Linn. Erscleb. Bison, 

 Fred. Cuv., Warden. Buffalo of the Anglo Americans. 

 Icon. Buff. Pennant. Nobis. 

 Habitat. Interior of North America. 



896. 8. B. Poephagus (the Yak.) Adult domestic va- 

 riety, three feet ten inches high at the shoulder ; seven 

 feet long from nose to tail ; forehead flat ; lips tumid ; 

 muzzle small ; occiput convex covered with frizzled hair; 

 horns round, smooth, pointed, lateral, bending forward 

 and upwards ; withers very high, but not hunched ; mam- 

 mae four, placed transversely ; ribs fourteen pair ; hair 



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