ovis. 131 



Disiribu/wn.— South Africa replaced in West Africa by B, 

 pumilus and in East and Central Africa by B. aequinoctalis of Blyth 

 to which perhaps specimens "b" and "c" should be referred, 



a. Skull and horns E. Blyth, 1864, A.S.B. 



*. Horns ^juv. W. S. Sherwill, 1844, A.S.B. 



c. Skeleton Sjuv. Zoological Gardens, 1878. 



Bos americanus. 



Bos americanus, Gmelin Syst. Nat., i., p. 204 (1788). 



Bison americanus, H. Smith Griffith An. Kingd., iv, p. 401, withplate (1827) > 



Gray Cat. Matnm. B. M., iii, p. 38 ; Allen. Mem. Mas. Comp. Zool., iv, 



no. 10. 



The American Buffalo. 



Distribution. — Formerly spread over the plains of North America 

 from the Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains, now nearly extinct 

 and confined to the remoter districts of Saskatchawan, Montana 

 and perhaps Texas. 



a. Skeleton, skin 9 W. Rutledge (1881). 



i. Skeleton, skin % Babu H. M. Roy (1881). 



c. Skull (no horns) H. A. Ward [Ex.] (1889). 



Bos taurus. 



Bos taurus, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 98 (1766) ; Blyth CatT, p. 159. 



Bos indicus, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. gp (1766). 



Zebus gibbosus, Blyth y. A. S. B., xxix, p. 282 (i860) ; id. Cat., p. 159, 



Distribution. — The Indian, humped race are unknown in an 

 aboriginal state, but are suspected by Blyth to have originated in 

 South Africa rather than in Asia ; they are found in a domestic state 

 all over the hotter parts of Africa as far as Natal, in Madagascar, 

 Arabia, South Persia (Blanford), Baluchistan, all over India, and 

 through Indo-China as far as Japan ; also in many of the Islands. 



o. Skeleton ? " Australian dom. race." 



4, Skeleton No history. 



c. Skull $ "English polled race." 



Genus OVIS. 



Ovis, Linnceus Syst, Nat., I2th ed., i, p. 97 (1766)- 

 Ammotragus, Blyth P. Z. S., p. 13 (1840). Tyfie, O. tragelaphus. 

 Fseudois, Hodgson J. A. S. B., xv. p. 343 (1846). Type, O. nahoor. 

 Caprovis, Hodgson J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 702 (1847). Type, O. musimon. 



The Wild Sheep may be divided into three groups, the larger 

 sheep of Central Asia which also reach North America, and the 



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