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FAMILY BOVIDA. 
The characters of the family are sufficiently indicated in the above 
Key. 
GrENus Bison Smith. 
Form wassive ; head declined ; neck short ; legs stout ; molars compara- 
tively broad, without supplemental lobes; end of muzzle very broad, 
naked ; nostrils widely separated ; hoofs broad; ears large ; tail long. 
BIsoN AMERICANUS (Gmelin.) Smith. 
AMERICAN BISON, OR BUFFALO. 
1788. Bos americanus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 204, 1788.—Desmarest, Nouv. 
Dict. Hist. Nat., 111, 531, 1816; Mammalogie, 496, pl. xliv, 1820. 
—Harlan, Fauna Amer., 268, 1825.—Godman, Amer. Nat. Hist., 
ili, 4, 1826.—Desmoulin, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 11, 365, 1822.— 
Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., i, 279, 1829.—Fischer, Synop. 
Mam., 495, 653, 1829.—Cooper, Month. Amer. Journ. Geol. and 
Nat. Hist., 1831, 44, 174, 207 @emains at Big Bone Lick, Ky.) ; 
Amer. Journ. Sci., xx, 371, 1831; Edinb. New Phil. Journ., xi, 
393, 18381.—Doughty, Cab. Nat. Hist., 11, 169, pl. xiv, 1832.— 
Sabine, Franklin’s Journey, 668, 1833.—Wagner, Schreber’s 
Siug., v, 472, 1855.—Giebel, Saiug., 271, 1855.—Baird, Mam. N. 
Amer., 682, 1857; U. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, pt. 11, 52, 1859. 
Newberry, Pacif. R. R. Expl. and Surveys, VI, iv, 72, 1857.— 
Suckley and Gibbs, ibid., XII, ii, 138, 1866.— Xantus, Zool. Gar- 
ten, i, 109.—Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 186, 1869 ; 
xvii, 39, 1874.—Coues and Yarrow, Expl. and Surv. West 100th 
Merid., vol. v, 67, 1876. 
‘17438. Bison americanus, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, 11, App., 20, xxviii, 
1743.—Brisson, Reg. Anim., Quad. 1756.—Smith, Griffith’s 
Cuv., v, 374, 1827.—Dekay, Nat. Hist. New York, Zool., pt. i, 
110, 1842.—Sundevall, Kong. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. for 1844, 
203, 1846.—Gray, Knowsley’s Menag., 49, 1850; Cat. Mam. Brit. 
Mus,., iii, 39, 1852; Hand-List of Kdentate, Thick-skinned, and 
Ruminant Mam., 85, 1873 —Girard, Cat Bones of Mam. Brit. 
Mus., 230, 1862.—Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, xviii, 177, 
1850.— Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. Amer., ii, 82, pls. lvi, lvii, 1851. 
Baird, Rep. U.S. Pat. Off., Agricult., 1851, 124 (plate), 1852.— 
Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, 200, 210; Extinct Mam. 
Faun. N. Amer., 571, 1869.—Allen, Bull. Essex Institute, VI, 
iii, 1865; Versuch einer nattir lichen Geschichte des Rinder, 
11, 58. 
