504 BOVID A. 
of deer, boars, &e., were discovered at the same time ; also 
several fragments of pottery of ancient British manu- 
facture.” Mr. Woods also conjectures that the conflicts of 
the first settlers with the Uri might have given rise to the 
traditionary legends of the great Dun Cow of Guy, Earl of 
Warwick. 
To return, however, to more 
positive testimony of the great 
Urus as a British quadruped ; I may 
first mention that the most com- 
plete series of the bones of one and 
the same skeleton of this extinct 
species is preserved in the private 
collection of Mr. Wickham Flower ; 
they were obtained from the drift 
overlving the London clay at Herne 
Bay. The skull is not so entire as 
that in the British Museum, but it 
presents larger dimensions. 
The length of each horn-core along 
the outer curve is three feet three 
inches; the circumference of the core 
at its base eighteen inches ten lines ; 
the longest diameter of the base six 
inches and a half; the chord of the 
are described by the core is seven 
inches and a quarter ; from the middle 
line of the forehead to the tip of 
the core is two feet two inches. The 
Metatarsus. Bos primi- 
genius. Grays. 
length of the lower jaw of this 
specimen is one foot eight inches; that of the series of 
molar teeth is seven inches. All the true vertebrae, except 
the atlas, appear to have been recovered, and they include 
