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either side the anus a large hollow smooth-lined gland secreting an aqueous 

 fetid humour, which the animal ejects posteally with force. No subsidiary 

 glands nor any unctuous fragrant secretion. Teats 6, remote and ventral. 

 Orbits incomplete. Parietes of the scull tumid, with small cristae. 



UrsincE. 

 Ursitaxus nob. 1 Sp. inauritus nob. Indian badger of Pennant and 



4 4- 



Hardwicke. Molars ^ . Aspect and size of Taxus ; no ears ; coarse scant 

 hair ; anal glands as in Mydaus ; genital organ, bony and annulated spi- 

 rally ; typically plantigrade and fossorial ; carnivorous. 



Bos. 



Subgenus ? Bibos nob. Head and fore-quarters exceedingly large ; cra- 

 nium bovine in its general character, but much more massive and de- 

 pressed ; its breadth between the orbits equal to the height and half of the 

 length ; frontals extremely large in all proportions, deeply concave, and 

 surmounted by a huge semi-cylindric crest, rising above the basis of the 

 horns; posteal plane of the skull vertical, equal to the frontal plane, and 

 divided centrally by the lambdoid crest ; orbits more salient, and rami of 

 the lower jaw more pointed and straighter, with less elevated condyles than 

 in the Bos ; 13 pairs of ribs ; spinous processes of the dorsal vertebrae ex- 

 tremely developed with gradual diminution backwards, causing the entire 

 back to slope greatly from the withers to the croup; neck sunk between the 

 head and back; dewlap evanescent; horns short, very thick and remote, 

 depressed, subtrigonal, presenting the acute angle of the triangle to the 

 front. 



1 spec, new and type. Bibos cavifrons, nob. Gauri Gau of Hindoos. 

 Hab. Saul Forest. Large wild Indian Bibos, with fine short limbs', short 

 tail, not reaching to the houghs; broad fan-shaped horizontal ears; smooth 

 glossy hair of a brown-red or black colour, paled upon the forehead or 

 limbs ; tufted knees and brows, and spreading green horns with round in_ 

 curved black tips, and with soft rugous bases, furnished posteally with a 

 fragrant secretion; 10 feet long from snout to rump, and 5^- feet high at 

 the shoulder ; head (to the crown of the forehead) 24 inches, and tail 33 

 inches ; female rather smaller, but preserving all the characters of the 

 male. 



N.B. To all appearance two other species of Bibos may be found in the 

 fossil Urns of Europe and in Aristotle's wild bull of Persia, with depressed 

 horns. These I would call respectively Bibos classicus and B. Aristotelis. 



Antelopidce. 

 Pantholops nob. Molars ^ ; incisors erect, strong, and rectilinearly 

 ranged ; horns with a clear sinus in the cores, long, slender, erect, subly- 

 rate, inserted between the orbits, compressed, nodose, and approximated at 

 their bases; large inguinal purses ; no suborbital sinus ; nose ovine, bluff, 

 and hairy ; large intermaxillary pouches or subsidiary nostrils ; knees sim- 

 ple ; ears pointed, short ; tail short, full ; hoofs low, broad and padded ; 



