THE SEL0T7S COLLECTION. 93 



Order UNGULATA. 



Family BOVID^S). 



Subfamily BOVINE. 



AMERICAN BISON. 



Bison bison bison. 



Bison bison, Liim. Syet. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 72, 1758 ; ed. 12, vol. i. 



p. 99, 1766 ; Merriam, N. Araer. Fauna, No. 5, p. 81, 1891. 

 Bos {Bison) bison. Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 435, 1910. 

 J3og bison bison, Lydekker, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus, toI. i. p, 38, 



1913. 



The American Bison is represented in the Collection by a skull 

 picked up near Cody City, Wyoming. 



Horn measurements : — length on outside curve 18 ; circum- 

 ference 12 ; greatest width inside 26J ; spread from tip to tip 23t. 



Typical locality, Texas. 



450 —19.7.15.38. Skull. Noyember, 1897. Cody City , Wyoming. 



Subfamily CAPRIN.^. 

 SARDINIAN MOUFLON. 



OVIS MUSIMON. 



Ovis mmimon, Schreber (ex Pallas), SaugtHere, vol. v. pi. oolxxxviii. A, 

 1788. 



Size small, height at shoulder about 27 inches. Horns of 

 medium build, curving forwards, suggesting the condition met 

 with in the Argali ; good horns from 30 to 38^ inches in length. 



The best horns of the following series are those of No. 19. 7. 



