658 CLASS XVTI. 



suppose, without satisfactory grounds, that Ovis muscimon Pall. (Buff. xi. 

 PL 29, SCHREB. Sciuffth. Tab. 288 A, Brandt u. Eatzeb. Mediz. Zool. i. 

 Tab. IX. fig. I, Cuv. J?. Ani., ed. ill., Mammif. PL 93, fig. 2), a species 

 from Sardinia and Corsica, which also occurs in Cyprus and in Persia, and 

 which is much smaller, is to be regarded as our originally wild sheep. 



Anoa Ham. Smith, Wagn. Horns remote at the base, thick, 

 flat upwards, striated transversely, subulate at the point, smooth, 

 directed backwards, ascending but little. Khinarium continued as 

 far as the margin of upper lip. Ears short (scarcely equalling the 

 third part of the length of head). Lachrymal sinuses none. Tail 

 moderate, setose. Neck short. Legs low. Mammge four. 



Sp. Anoa depresslcornis, Antilope depressicornis Ham. Sm., Quot et Gaimakd 

 Ann. des Sc. nat. xvii. PI. ao, i^p. 423 — 426; Celebes; an intermediate 

 form, between the antelopes and oxen ; brown or blackish ; the thighs on 

 the inside and the fore legs at the lower part whitish. 



Bos L. Horns round either throughout or towards the tip, 

 turned outwards, incurved at the tip, ascending, with osseous nucleus 

 cavernous. Lachrymal sinuses none. Rhinarium almost always 

 below the nostrils large, broad. Tail moderate, tufted at the point 

 or with long hair throughout. Mammas four. 



The genus of the oxen has a very wide geographical distribution, like the 

 family of the grasses on which they feed ; in South America, however, no 

 originally wild species are met with. 



Sp. Bos Taurus Ij., Buff. iv. PI. 14, Schreb. Sdugth. Tab. 297; common 

 cattle are included under this name. The forehead is flat and the horns are 

 set upon the edge which separates this flat forehead from the part of the 

 head which descends downwards. Oxen may attain an age of 20 or 25 

 years, but rarely five so long, since they are mostly slaughtered at an 

 earlier period. Period of gestation of the cow is about 280 days. The 

 calf is bom with four incisors and with three molars in each jaw on both 

 sides; after the first year the change of the teeth begins, and after the 

 third all the milk-teeth are replaced by permanent teeth. 



Every one is acquainted with the manifold usefulness of this animal, of 

 which the breed forms one of the chief sources of our national riches. Com- 

 pare on the ox Wagnek in Schreber's Sdugth. v. s. 1566 — 1680, H. W. 

 Von Pabst Anle'dung zur Rlndviehzucht, Mit 24 Bildern in lithogr. Far- 

 bcndrucTc, Stuttgart und Tubingen, 185 1, 8vo, and (with special reference 

 to the cattle of Holland) J. Le Francq Van Berkhey NatuurlijJce Historie 

 van het rundvce in Holland, met platen, Leiden, 1805 — 181 1, 8vo, vi. 

 Deelen. 



There are fewer varieties in cattle than in sheep. To the varieties 

 belongs Bos indicus L., the zehu, distinguished by a hump on the back 

 which, like tliat of the camel, consists of fat; sometimes this race is 



