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Oxen 



Bos aci/ticor/i/s, Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs ^ p. 48 (1893). 



Characters. — Size apparently much the same as in the tamarau, but the 

 horns longer. Skull generally like that of the tamarau, but the horn-cores 

 more distinctly triangular in section, with their front outer angle brought 



Fig. 27. — Skull and horn-cores of Falconer's Tamarau. Restored from a specimen in the 



British Museum. 



much more on to the frontal aspect of the skull, and the proper frontal surface 

 of the horn-cores consequently directed to a great extent upwards, instead 

 ot almost immediately forwards. Horn-cores long, pointed, and directed 

 upwards and outwards, with the front outer angle forming a sub-spiral 

 curve arising at its base near the middle line of the horn-cores, as seen 

 from the front. 



