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possibly be confounded. Apparently, the animal 

 was shot in the prime of life : the horns are 

 neither worn nor splintered : the sutures of the 

 skull are unobliterated, and the teeth are in 

 excellent condition. U nfortunately the premaxillae 

 and lower jaw have been lost. 



The following horn measurements of this unique 

 example may be compared with those of horns 

 attached to skin-specimens at Leyden, Paris, &c. : 



Length of left horn^ over anterior curve, 2 2 in. 



Circumference at base, 6in. 



Minimum divergence, iMn. 



No. of rings : 20 (left horn), 21 (right horn). 



To recapitulate : 



The horns attached to the male frontlet in the 

 National Collection are 20 inches long : those of 

 the bull at Paris, tape 2 1 1 inches : of the bull at 

 Leyden — a record measurement — 24! inches. The 

 horns of the cow at Vienna reach 20| inches, 

 and those of the cow in the Royal College of 

 Surgeons' Museum are 22 and 21 inches respec- 

 tively. Thus the various measurements show a 

 certain relationship to each other : had the speci- 

 mens from which they have been taken belonged 

 merely to a haphazard series of different animals 

 instead of to one definite species, they would not 

 have exhibited this agreement. The dimensions 



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1 The right horn has about one inch of the tip missing, hence the 

 original distance between the tips coukl not be taken. 



