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Oxen 



a. European Wild Race, or Aurochs — Bos taurus primigenius 



( Extinct) 



Bos pi-iiiiigeniiis, Bojanus, Nova Acta Acad. Ccrs. Leop.-Car. vol. xiii. 

 pt. 2, p. 422 (1827) ; Owen, Bnt. Foss. Mamm. p. 498 (1846) ; Wilckens, 

 B'lol. Centralblatt., vol. v. p. iii (1885) ; Nehring, Lanchcirtsch. ya/u-h. vol. 

 XXV. p. 915 (1896) ; Schiemenz, Bio/. Ccntra/h/att, vol. xvii. p. 793 (1897). 



Fig. I. — Restored skull of the Aurochs. From a specimen in the British Museum from the 

 brick-earth of Ilford, Essex. 



Bos [Taitn/s) i/nis, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 

 p. 414, V. p. 376 (1827). 



Bos uri/s, Fleming, Brit. Animals., p. 24 (1828) ; Dawkins, Quart, 

 yourn. Geo/. Soc. vol. xxii. p. 391 (1866). 



Bos /atifrons, Fischer, Bn//. Soc. Moscoii, vol. ii. art. 2 (1830), Mem. 

 Acad. Moscou, vol. iii. p. 281 (18:^4), ticc Harlan, 181 5. 



