Musk-Oxen 



The following are the dimensions of the figured specimen : — 



Width of skull beneath horn-cores 



Length of horn-cores along greater curve 



Interval between tips 



Diameter ot inner surface of base of horn-core 



Basal girth of horn-core . 



Interval between bases of horn-cores 

 Distri/mtion. — Northern India during the Pliocene epoch 



Incert^ Sedis 



Anoa sa/iteng, Dubois, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. hid. vol. li. pt. i , p. 96 (i 89 i) ; 

 Jentink, Notes Leyden Mas. vol. xiii. p. 220 (1891). 



Named on the evidence of an unfigured and insufficiently described 

 skull obtained from the superficial deposits of Java, and said by its 

 describer to indicate an animal allied to the anoa of Celebes, which 

 may still be living in the island. The evidence is considered insufficient 

 by Dr. fentink. 



II. The Musk-Oxen — Genus Ovibos 



Ovibos, De Blainville, Bi/i/. Soc. Philoiu. Paris, i 8 i 6, p. 76 ; Gray, Cat. 

 Ungiilata Brit. Miis. p. 42 (1852) ; Riitimeyer, Ahhand. schwciz. pa/. Ges. 

 vol. V. p. 103 (1878) ; P. Thomas, Rul/. Soc. Zool. France, 1881, p. 25 ; 

 Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, 1895, p. 242 ; Matschie, SB. Ges. naturf. 

 Berlin, 1898, p. 30. 



Bootheriiim, Leidy, Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, vol. vi. p. 71 (1851). 



Characters. — Size medium ; build stout and clumsy ; the neck short, 

 and the head carried only slightly above the level ot the back ; no dewlap. 

 Extremity ot muzzle moderately broad, and, except for a narrow strip on 

 the inner margins of the nostrils, and a triangular patch where these two 



