350 Prof. Nilsson on the extinct and existing 
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The concavity of the temple is at the back transversely obtuse, in 
Fig. 4. 
front it is obliquely pointed ; 
the hind part (as far as the 
socket of the under-jaw) 
twice as broad as the front 
part; the foramen of the 
occiput more high than broad. 
Besides the two skulls of this 
sort which the museum at 
present possesses, and of 
which also the younger is 
represented below, I have Bos frontosus. 
seen a third at the British Museum in London, which probably 
also belongs to the same species. 
An old Bull (?) A young specimen A rather young 
from Djurmoss from a turf-bog in one in the Bri- 
near Saxtorp in the district of Skytts tish Museum. 
Scania. in southern Scania. 
in. lin. in. lin. in. lin. 
Length of frontal bones ...... 12 4 
ELenGth Ob OFDItS ~s-c02s-0.-00- 3 0 
Length between horn-crown 
and orbits...... Aer ee) 2 4 2 4 4 
Breadth between horn-crown 
ADOVEH fesctcdessc cuss eonceeeeee 8 0 6 2 6 2 
Between horn-crown below... 10 0 7 5 8 0 
Breadth of forehead’s smallest 
[PRE "contaandusodoagodancdbane 7 6 7 1 7 0 
Breadth between the upper 
edges of the orbits ......... 10 4 8 3 0 9 
Breadth in the centre above 
the orbits ...... A acrieniic 8 5 6 5 
Thecircumference of the horn- 
core near the roots ......... 8 6 6 6 
The size of these skulls denotes a species of Ox, which, although 
much less than the Bos pri- 
migenius, is yet consider- 
ably larger than the Bos 
longifrons. It seems to have 
been about the size of our 
common cow; from which, 
however, in form it totally 
differs. In the museum 
here are to be seen some 
loose bones which seem to 
have belonged to this spe- 
cies. They are found in Bos frontosus. 
turf-bogs under the Jaravall in southern Scania, and in such a 
* In the series of remains of the skull and horn-cores of the Bos longifrons 
preserved in the British Museum and that of the College of Surgeons, there 
