354 On the extinct and existing Bovine Animals of Scandinavia. 
meri 8:6; breadth of lower joint’s superficies 2:4. Radius 
about 10 in. Metacarp. 7:3; breadth of lower articular surface 
2in. The pelvis im a right line 1 ft. 2in. 2 lin. Foram. ob- 
turat. oval, in front somevaliat narrower. Os femoris 11:4, 
Tibia 11:4. Metatarsus 8:4. First toe-joint 2in., second 1:2; 
the hoof 2:2 
Abode.—This slender-built almost deer-like species of Ox has 
existed wild contemporaneously with the forementioned animals 
in the south and west of Scania; and, as it appears, was found 
here in great numbers, probably m large flocks, in the vast 
forests with which the land was everywhere covered. It is not 
till within the last few years that our attention has been directed 
to its fossil remains, and already I have obtained several both of 
skulls and skeletons. In the Zoological Museum in Lund is pre- 
served a skull which was taken up from a deep turf-bog near the 
Cathedral in Lund; and the back part of the skull with the horn- 
cores of a very old specimen was found, while digging a well, at the 
depth of nine ells, likewise in Lund. Fr om a turf-bog in the ‘lige ict 
of Skytts I have obtaimed a skull; and from a turf- “bog belonging 
to the parsonage of Nobbel6f, in the district of Ljunit, two ‘ske- 
letons of this species of Ox have been dug up during this summer. 
At the close of the late meeting of Naturalists in Copenhagen, 
Professor Steenstrup exhibited a recently dug-up skull belongmg 
to this species found in aturf-bog in Seeland. In Ireland and 
England several remains have been found in different places, and 
in relatively older earth-beds. In England they have been found 
together with the bones of the mammoth and rhinoceros (Owen, 
p- 510) ; they have been found in earth-beds over which lay a 
bed of marine shells, and over that a bed of freshwater shells 
(p. 511): im Ireland they have been found in freshwater marl 
under turf-bogs, together with the bones of the Cervus megaceros, 
from which we can form an idea of thew great antiquity ; but 
they have also been found in the same turf-bogs, whence Pro- 
fessor Owen draws the conclusion that this species of Ox con- 
tinued to live there even after the last-mentioned species of ani- 
mal was already extinct. With us, in the south of Scania, it 
lived contemporaneously with the Remdeer, Bos primigenius, and 
Bos frontosus : it was certainly among the Herbivora that came 
into the country after the ‘ period of destruction,’ when the fields 
were again clothed with grass, bushes and forests. With us, 
and, as far as we know, over all Europe, they were, as wild, 
exterminated before the so-called historic period. That this 
same species of fossil remains might be found in Germany also 
is more than merely probable, although none as yet have been 
noticed. How far this species of Ox in:former times has any- 
