1 8 EVOLUTION OF BRITISH CATTLE 



Bos longifrons has been reconstructed again 

 and again from his resurrected skeleton. From 

 Swedish skeletons Nilsson describes him thus ^ : 

 "This is the smallest of all the ox tribe which 

 lived in a wild state in our portion of the globe. 

 To judge from the skeleton, it was 5 feet 4 inches 



BOS LONGIFRONS— FROM SWITZERLAND. 



Frotn Riitimeyer. 



long from the nape to the end of the rump bone, 

 the head about i foot 4 inches, so that the whole 

 length must have been 6 feet 8 inches. From 

 the slender make of its bones, its body must 

 rather have resembled a deer than our common 

 tame ox ; its legs at the extremities are certainly 

 somewhat shorter and also thinner than those of 



1 "Annals and Magazine of Natural History," vol. iv. second 

 series, 1849, P* 352. 



