BISON PRISCUS. 49] 
RUMINANTIA. BOVID AE. 
Fig. 205. 
Fossil frontlet and horn-cores of Aurochs, pliocene clay, Woolwich. 
(The rest of the skull restored in outline.) 
BISON PRISCUS, Great Fossil Aurochs. 
Aurochs fossile, Cuvier, Ann. du Mus. xi. pp. 379, 3886, tab. 
xxxlv. figs. 1,2, 4,5. Ossem. Foss. iv. tab. xi. 
fig. Ds tabs xls fos. 02,65, Vs 
Bos (Bison) priscus, Bosanus, Noy. Acta. Acad. Nat. Cur. t. xiii. 
Bos priscus, H. v. Meyer, 7d. t. xvii. p. 1. 
Urus priscus, Owen, Report of British Association, 1348, p. 232 
When the forests of Germany and Belgium were first 
penetrated by the Roman armies, there were found, 
amongst other beasts of chase, two large species of wild 
oxen; the one called ‘‘ Bison” distinguished by its shaggy 
coat, the other called ‘‘Urus” by the great size of its 
horns. Both these species continued to exist to later 
periods of the Empire, and were occasionally captured and 
exhibited alive in the shows of the amphitheatre. 
