30 MAMMALIA. 
Bubalus depressicornis, Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 
Anoa, Loten MSS. in Brit. Mus.; Penn. Syn. 6; Quad. 26; 
Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 746. 
Anoa depressicornis, Sundeévall, Vet. Akad. Handl. 1844, 199; 
Gray, List Mam. B. M. 153; Last Osteol. B. M. 54; Gray, 
Knowsley Menag. t. 
Hab. Celebes. 
Male and female. Celebes. From the Leyden Museum. 
OstEou. Skull, t. 3. f. 1, 2. 
Skull and horns. Celebes. Presented by General Hardwicke. 
Skull and horns. Mauritius? 
Skull and horns. Mauritius ? 
This animal was first noticed by Governor Loten. It was 
afterwards described by Colonel Hamilton Smith from a head with 
horns in the Museum of the College of Surgeons. A similar 
head was received by General Hardwicke (which was given by 
him to the British Museum), accompanied by a sketch of the 
head and front part of the body of the animal, which is copied 
im Gray’s Spicilegia. MM. Quoy and Gaimard afterwards pub- 
lished a figure of the animal, and took two male specimens with 
them to Paris, one of which was transmitted to Knowsley, in ex- 
change for the specimen of Oreas Canna sent to Paris by the Earl 
of Derby : this specimen is figured in the Knowsley Menagerie. 
* Intermazillaries short, triangular, not reaching to the edge of 
the nasal bone; the upper lip bald, callous and moist, only as 
wide as the inner edge of the nostrils. 
Mr. Turner observes: “I fear that Mr. Gray’s distinction im 
the extent of the intermaxillary bones upon the sides of the nasal 
aperture will not always hold good.”—Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 
Since this remark was penned, I have re-examined many speci- 
mens of the skull of this genus and of other oxen, and do not 
find any reason to doubt the validity of the distinction; I have 
not found a single Bison’s skull with an elongated intermaxillary, 
nor an Ox or Buffalo with a short one. It would have been 
better if Mr. Turner had cited the example which made him 
doubt ; when I applied to him on the subject, he owned that he 
could not refer me to a specimen to verify his remarks. 
4, Brsos. 
Horns depressed at the base, directed outwards, posterior on 
the hinder ridge of the frontal bone, which is often very promi- 
nent, recurved at the tip. Withers high, keeled, supported by the 
spinous processes of the dorsal vertebra, and suddenly lower be- 
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