498 BOVID®. 
RUMINANTIA. BOVID. 
Fig, 208. 
Skull of great extinct Ox, Scotland. 
BOS PRIMIGENIUS. Great Fossil Ox. 
Bos primigenius, Bosanus, Nova Acta Acad. Nat, Cur. tom. xiii. pl. IT. 
p- 422. 
Beuf fossile, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 1823, tom. iy. p. 150, 
pl. XI. figs. 1—4. 
Fossil Ox, Woors, Description of the fossil skull of an Ox, 4to. 
1839. 
Bos primigenius, Owen, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 233. 
Or the two kinds of gigantic oxen which the Romans 
discovered when they first penetrated the wilds and forests 
of uncivilized Europe, that which they distinguished by its 
shaggy coat and mane may be recognised in the still un- 
tamed Aurochs of Lithuania; and the remains of the large 
Bovine animal described in the foregoing section, which 
belong to the same subgenus (Bison), and which show no 
