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XXXVII.—On the extinct and existing Bovine Animals of 
Scandinavia. By Prof. Nrisson of Lund. 
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2. Ox with high occipital ridge (Bos frontosus, n. sp.). 
Bos frontosus. 
Gen. Char. The forehead convex at its upper part ; below smooth, 
rounded, the ridge of the occiput rising high in the centre, 
convex ; horns short, somewhat depressed at the roots, directed 
outwards and backwards, then bent forwards. 
Syn. Bos frontosus, Nilss. K. Vetensk. Akad. Ofversigt, d. 14 April 1847. 
Description—This fossil Wild Ox, of whose skull the mu- 
seum here possesses both an old and a young specimen, forms a 
very different kind from any I have yet seen. It has however 
some remote resemblance to the Bison, through its convex 
forehead and its horn-pedicles. The old specimen, probably a 
bull, whose cranium is here delineated in face and profile, has 
the forehead between the horns convex ; below, where it is the 
smallest, flat-rounded ; between the eyes broad, hollowed. The 
ridge of the occiput thick, rounded, in the centre rismg and 
strongly curved. The nasal bones seem to reach up to the line 
drawn over the sockets of the eyes. The horn-cores, which rest 
on longer pedicles than among any known species of Ox, are di- 
rected outwards and backwards, also somewhat curved down- 
wards in the same direction as the front of the forehead, above 
which they do not rise. They have the back and front somewhat 
flat-round, so that a transverse section would form more or less an 
oval. The outer edge of the zygomatic process of the temporal 
bone forms above the socket of the under-jaw nearly a right angle. 
