1. BOS. fj 



A. The nostrils open, bald within; nose ovine or bovine. 



Fam. 1. BOVIDyE. 



The nostrils open, bald within ; nose bovine ; muffle large, moist. 



Horns smooth, spread out on the sides, cylindrical or depressed. 



Tail elongate, bovine or equine. False hoofs well developed. 



Boveae, Grmj, Cat. Vnr/ul. ^. iJf. p. 15. 



The horns smoothish, spread out on the sides, cylindrical or 

 depressed at the base ; situated on the frontal edge, and bent later- 

 ally outward, and recurved at the tip. The nose is broad, with the 

 nostrils on the side. Crumen none. Skull has no suborbital pit or 

 fissure. Grinders with well - developed supplementary lobe. The 

 knee (or wi-ist) below the middle of the fore leg, the cannon bone 

 being shorter than the forearm-bone. 



1. The tail elongate, subcylindrical, covered loith short hair at the base and 

 long at the tip. Mnffie bovine, broad, and tnoist. 



A. Oxen.— m hair short and rigid, shoulder and haunches eqi/allt/ hu/h. 

 Interma.iillarij bones elongate, reaching to the nasals in the adult animal. 



1. BOS. 



Horns cylindrical, conical, nearly circular at the base, curved 

 upward and outward on the sides of the head (Grav, Cat. Unoul 

 B.M. p. 17, t. 1. f. 1, skull). 



1. Bos taurus, (The Bull.) B.M. 



Forehead flat, withers not humped. 

 Bos taurus, Grag, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 17, t. 1. f. 1 (skull). 



Hah. Europe, Asia, Africa, America; always in a domestic state. 



The British Museum purchased, at the sale of the property of the 

 Earl of Mountnorris, at Arley Hall, the pair of horns of the Galla 

 Oxen mentioned by Mr. Salt in his ' Voyage to Abvssinia,' n 258 

 4to edit., 1844. ^ 



" The horns are shorter, and more curved and lyrated than the 

 figure engraved in t. 19, p. 259, of Salt's 'Travels in Abyssinia' 

 (which also appears to make them bear a larger proportion to the size 

 of the animal than the specimen suggests) ; and they are quite as 

 remarkable for their erect position on the forehead as for their size. 



"They and the core which supports tliem are very light, compared 

 with their size, and not half the weight of the smaller wide-spreading 

 horns of the long-horned Cape Waggon Oxen. The horns are thint 

 pale coloured, and of a loose texture, being worn and fibrous on the 

 surface in several parts. 



" In the lightness and very cellular structure of the core, the thin- 

 ness of the horny coat, and the large size, they agree with tlie pair 



