34 CATALOGUE OE UNGULATES 



91. 8. 7. 217. Skull, with horns. Niti side of Hundes, 

 Tibet ; shot by N. Troup, Esq. Same history. 



91. 8. 7. 218. Skull, with horns. Angirtakshin Pass, 

 Kuen-lun (94° E. 35° IST.) ; collected by A. D. Casey, Esq. 



Same history. 



91. 8. 7. 219. Skull, with horns. Kuen-lun; collected 

 by A. Dalgleish, Esq. Same history. 



91. 8. 7. 220. Skull, with horns. Hundes, Tibet ; col- 

 lected by Mr. Troup. Sam.e history. 



12. 10. 31. 85. Skull, with horns (fig. 14). Angirtakshin 

 Pass; collected by Mr. Dalgleish. Length of horns 38|, 

 girth 38|, tip-to-tip 26J inches. The maximum known 

 horn-length is stated to be 39 inches. 



Bequeathed hy A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1912. 



4. Subgenus BISON. 



Bison, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 373, 1827 ; 



Gray, Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 35, 1852. 

 Urus, Bojanus, Nova Acta Acad. Cms. Leop.-Car. vol. xiii, pp. 413, 



428, 1827 ; Sivainson, Classif. Quadrupeds, p. 279, 1843 ; neo 



H. Smith. 

 Bonasus, Wagner, Schreber's Saiigthiere, Suppl, vol. iv, p. 515, 1844. 



Nearly allied to Poephagus, but the long hair concentrated 

 on the head and fore-quarters, where it forms a mane on the 

 neck, a fringe on the throat, and a mantle on the shoulders ; 

 the tail, which reaches to the hocks or somewhat below, tufted 

 only near the tip; and the line of the back failing away 

 more or less markedly towards the hind-quarters. Colour 

 brownish, with a tinge of plum. Skull shorter and wider 

 than in Poephagus, with the orbits more approximated to the 

 bases of the horn-cores and more tubular, the frontal region 

 more convex, and the nasals much shorter and wider. Horns 

 of the same general type, but smaller. Eibs fourteen pairs 

 as in Poephagus.* 



The range formerly included a large part of Europe and 

 Western North America. 



* Owen (Brit. Foss. Mamm. and Birds, p. 493, 18A&,&ni Anatomy 

 of Vertebrates, vol. ii, p. 462, 1866) stated that there are fifteen pairs 

 in B. bison ; a statement that has been much copied. See Allen, 

 Mem. Kentuohy Oeol. Surv. vol. i, pt. 2, p. 2, 1876. 



