260 Prof, Owen^ on the Aboriginal Cattle of Britain. [May 2, 



If the blood of any of the aboriginal cattle, contemporary with 

 the mammoth and hairy rhinoceros, still flowed in the veins of any 

 of our domesticated races, he thought it would be that of the Bos 

 longifrons transmitted through the short-horned or hornless varieties 

 of the oxen of the mountains of Wales and Scotland. 



In conclusion the speaker referred to the subjoined table of the 

 classification of recent and extinct hoofed quadrupeds, as indicative 

 of the progressive extinction of those forms of Ungulata least likely 

 to be of use to man, and of the substitution of the ruminant forms, 

 which, from the perfect digestion of their food, elaborate from it 

 the most sapid and nutritious kinds of flesh. 



UNGULATA. 



Typica. 



Artiodactyla* 

 Anoplotherium 

 Chalicotherium 

 Dichobune 

 Cainotherium 

 Poebrotherium 

 Xiphodon 

 MoschusX 

 Antilope 

 Ovis 

 Bos 

 Cervus 



Camelopardalis 

 Camelus 

 Auchenia 

 Merycotherium 

 Merycopotamus 

 Hippopotamus 

 Dichodon 

 Hyracotherium 

 Hyopotamus 

 Anthracotherium 

 Hippohyus 

 Choeropotamus 

 Dicotyles 

 Phacochoerus 

 Sus. 



Perissodactyla f 

 Palseotherium 

 Paloplotherium 

 Lophiodon 

 Coryphodon 

 Tapirus\ 

 Macrauchenia 

 Hippotherium 



Elasmotherium 

 Hyrax 

 Rhinoceros 

 Acerotherium. 



* "KpTtos, jx^r; Saiicrukos, digitus. 



■j" HspKro'oSdKruXos, qui digitos habet impares numero. 



X Only those genera printed in italics now exist. 



