508 BOVID.E. 
RUMINANTIA. BOVID. 
Frontlet and horn-cores or Bos longifrons, Bog, Ireland. 
BOS LONGIFRONS. Long-fronted, or Small Fossil Ox. 
Race of Ox from Irish Bog, Bau, Proceedings of Royal Irish 
Academy, January, 1839. 
Ancient Bos not exceeding the modern Ox, Woops, Description of Fossil Skull 
of an Ox, 4to., 1839, p. 28. 
Bos longifrons, OweEN, Report of British Associa- 
tion, 1843, p. 235. 
Tue magnitude of the great Hercynian Urus, and the 
direction of its horns, have led, as we have just seen, 
to its being distinguished, by the name of Bos primigenius, 
from the ordinary species of domestic cattle (Bos taurus). 
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But “the naturalist well knows,” says Cuvier, “ that such 
characters are neither constant nor proper for the distinc- 
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tion of species ;” and it appears, in fact, that the Bos 
primigenius, whilst it retained its great bulk and enor- 
mous horns, was subject to some variety in their curvature, 
