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A very perfect specimen of these horns has been found in 

 the Isle of Man. 



Horns have been found in Scania resembling those of the 

 fallow deer, but one-third larger. These are supposed, by 

 Cuvier, to have belonged to some unknown animal. 



In blocks of sandstone, in the neighbourhood of Etampes, 

 are found small stag's-horns of a size between the stag and 

 the roebuck; they are small, thin, and rather flat; and al- 

 though the root is nearly round, the beam immediately be- 

 comes flat. These are not the horns of young animals, 

 their epiphyses being found in union with their bones. 

 There is no known animal to which these bones can be 

 referred. Horns, resembling those of the roebuck, have 

 been found among the remains of lost animals in the quar- 

 ries of Montabusard. 



Very large fossil heads of the ox kind have been found 

 in different parts, respecting which it has been found dif- 

 ficult to determine, whether they were or not similar 

 species with those which are now in existence. 



M. Faujas was satisfied that the large fossil heads of the 

 ox were of two distinct species. In the first species the 

 cores were placed in a horizontal position, and measured, 

 though the animal was young, more than twelve inches and 

 a half in circumference, and the distance from one orbit to 

 the other was more than thirteen inches. The distance 

 from the upper extremity of the forehead to the edge of the 

 occipital foramen was little more than four inches and a 

 half; and on the forehead, between the commencement of 

 the two horns, is a slight protuberance of an oval form. In 

 the second species, the horns formed a kind of crescent 

 inclining downwards ; the circumference of the core of the 

 horns, at their base, was thirteen inches ; and from the 

 upper edge of the forehead to the edge of the occipital 

 foramen but four inches. The forehead, which was quite 

 flat, is to be considered, at its upper extremity, as forming 



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