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BOS. OX. 



Generic Character. 



Cornua concava, antrorsum 

 versa, lunata, laevia. 



Denies Primores inferlores 

 octo. 



Laniarii null}. 



Horns concave, turned out- 

 wards, lunated, smooth. 



Front-teeth eight in the lower 

 jaw. 



Canine-teetb none. 



BISON. 



Bos Taurus. B. cornibus teretibus, extrorsum curvatis, pakaribus 



laxis. Lin. Syst, Nat. p. 98. 

 Ox with round horns curving outwards, and loose dewlap. 

 Bos ferus. Plin. Hist. Nat. VIII. c. 15. 

 Urus. CcBS. Gall. 6. c. 28. Gesn. Quadr. p. 157. Aldr. bisuk, 



P' 3A7'J^g' P' 348. 

 Auerochs. Gesn. Thierb. p. 299. 



Eonasus. Vlin. Hist. Nat. 8. c. ij. Gesn. Quadr. p. 145. Aldr. 

 lisulc. 358. 



Bison. Plin. Hist. Nat. 8. c. 15. Gesn. Quadr. p, 1^3. Aldr» 



bisulc. 353. 

 Bos Bonasus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 99. 

 Bis Bison. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 99. 

 The Wild Bullj Bison, or Bonasus. 



This formidable animal, from which the seve- 

 ral races of common cattle have been gradually 

 derived, is found wild in many parts both of the 



