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cies, as we are informed, at a distance looking like 

 Devonshire cattle, but with raised withers, showing 

 perhaps the original animal from which the domestic 

 ox, Bos sacer is derived, or a feral race long esta- 

 blished in the forests of Indo China. We doubt 

 whether the recently discovered Bos Atlanticus, 

 Blyth, or Sherif-al-Wady of the valleys of Atlas be 

 of the present sub-genus, or one more of the colossal 

 species of the next. 



After this group, we place the 



Sub-genus BIBOS of Hodgson, wherein we include 

 the giant Bovidce, which surpass in height, at the 

 shoulder, even the largest Bisons and Uri now ex- 

 tant. The Urus of antiquity (not the fossil) may 

 have belonged to the same form, for we include in 

 the group also the Gayals of India, though somewhat 

 inferior in stature, and slightly different in skull ; 

 but they have a similar livery and markings, which, 

 to some extent, occurred also in the German Uri of 

 the middle and feudal ages. Bibos, in our arrange- 

 ment, has the elevated ridge on the shoulders even 

 higher, and, in some species, further prolonged 

 down the spine than Bison. The group is inter- 

 mediate between the bisontine form and the bovine, 

 having the horns set on very near the frontal crest, 

 which is considerably elevated, and the forehead 

 broader proportionably, and depressed or concave as 

 in the domestic ox, but, towards the centre, rising 

 again, and forming a convexity more or less pro- 

 minent; the horns rather short, lateral, regularly 



