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FAMILY BOVIDiE. 



The characters of the family are sufficiently indicated in the above 

 Key. 



Genus Bison Smith. 



Form uiassive ; head declined ; neck short j legs stout ; molars compara- 

 tively broad, without supplemental lobes ; end of muzzie very broad, 

 naked ; nostrils widely separated ; hoofs broad ; ears large ; tail long. 



Bison americanus (Gmelin.) Smith. 

 American Bison, oe Buffalo. 

 1788. Bos americanus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 204, 1788. — Desmarest, Nouv. 

 Diet. Hist. Nat., iii, 531, 1816; Mammalogie, 496, pi. xliv, 1820. 

 — Harlan, Fauna Amer., 268, 1825. — Godman, Amer. Nat. Hist., 

 iii, 4, 1826.— Desmoulin, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., ii, 365, 1822.— 

 Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., i, 279, 1829. — Fischer, Synop. 

 Mam., 495, 653, 1829. — Cooper, Month. Amer. Journ. Geol. and 

 Nat. Hist., 1831, 44, 174, 207 (remains at Big Bone Lick, Ky.) ; 

 Amer. Journ. Sci., xx, 371, 1831 ; Edinb. New Phil. -Journ., xi, 

 363, 1831.— Doughty, Cab. Nat. Hist., ii, 169, pi. xiv, 1832.— 

 Sabine, Franklin's Journey, 668, 18§3. — Wagner, Schreber's 

 Saug., V, 472, 1856.— Giebel, Saug., 271, 1855.— Baird, Mam. N. 

 Amer., 682, 1867 ; U. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, pt. ii, 52, 1859. 

 Newberry, Pacif. R. R. Expl. and Surveys, VI, iv, 72, 1857.— 

 Suckley and Gibbs, ibid., XII, ii, 138, 1866.— Xantus, Zo51. Gar- 

 ten, i, 109.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 186, 1869; 

 xvii, 39, 1874.— Coues and Yarrow, Expl. and Surv. West 100th 

 Merid., vol. v, 67, 1875. 



W43. Bison americanus, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, ii, App., 20, xxyiii, 

 1743.— Brisson, Reg. Anim., Quad., 1756.— Smith, Griffith's 

 Cuv., V, 374, 1827.— DeKay, Nat. Hist. New York, Zool., pt. i, 

 110, 1842.— Sundevall, Kong. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. for 1844, 

 203, 1846.— Gray, Knowsley's Menag., 49, 1850; Cat. Mam. Brit. 

 Mus., iii, 39, 1852 ; Hand-List of Edentate, Thick-skinned, and 

 Ruminant Mam., 85, 1873 — Girard, Cat Bones of Mam. Brit. 

 Mus., 230, 1862.— Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, xviii, 177, 

 1850.— Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. Amer., ii, 32, pis. Ivi, Ivii, 1861. 

 Baird, Rep. U. S. Pat. Off., Agricult., 1851, 124 (plate), 1852.— 

 Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, 200, 210 ; Extinct Mam. 

 Faun. N. Amer., 571, 1869.— Allen, Bull. Essex Institute, VI, 

 iii, 1866; Versuch einer natiir lichen Geschichte des Rinder, 

 ii, 58. 



