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Family BOVIDAE. 
For a recent account of the American Boiridae see Lydekker, 
Wild oxen, sheep and goats of all lands, London, 1898. 
Genus BISON Hamilton Smith. 
1827. Bison Hamilton Smith, Griffith’s Cuvier, Animal king¬ 
dom, V, p. 373. Type. — Bos bison Linnaeus. 
* Bison bison (Linnaeus). 
1758. bison Linnaeus, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 72. 
1885. Bison cunericamis True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 
(1884), p. 592. 1885. 
1888. B[iso7i\ bison Jordan, Manual of the vertebrate ani¬ 
mals of the northern United States, 5th ed., p. 337. 
Type locality. — Mountains of southeastern United States. 
Bison bison athabascae Rhoads. 
1898. Bison bisoji athabascae Rhoads, Proc. acad. nat. 
sci. Phila., (1897), p. 498. January 18,1898. 
Type locality. — Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie, Canada. 
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Genus OVIBOS Blainville. 
1816. Ooibos Blainville, Bull. soc. philom., p. 76. Type.— 
Bos moschatus Zimmermann. 
The genus Ovibos has been removed from the typical Bovidae to 
form, together with the Asiatic Biidorcas, the subfamily Ovibovi- 
nae (Matschie, Sitzungsber. der Gesellsch. naturforsch. Freunde 
zu Berlin, 1898, pp. 30-31.) 
* Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann). 
1780. Bos moschatus Zimmermann, Geogr. Geschichte, ii, 
p. 86. 
1822. Ovibos moschatus Desmarest, Mammalogie, ii, p. 492. 
