DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. [B. XIX. XX.] 145 



from the form of hock, fetlock, and hoof. The outline of the croup, the setting- 

 on of the tail, and what remains of the nearly horizontal dorsal line, together 

 with the heavy dewlap, reaching far down between the legs*, have reference to 

 a true Bos (possibly Bos primigenius). The legs of the right side only are 

 drawn. The withers and horn (right-hand side) are lost with the wanting 

 pieces of the specimen. 



The old artist, in utilizing the angular shape of this antler-palm, has given 

 the animal a constrained position, spoiling the effect of his drawing, and espe- 

 cially interfering with the natural position of the head. This is thrown 

 upwards and backwards to allow of the probably short and slightly curved 

 profile of the terete-pointed horn being included within the natural margin of 

 the palm, and between that edge and the neck of the Bull. The head, too, has 

 a somewhat indefinite outline, owing to the upward continuation of the throat- 

 line, parallel to a short line starting from underneath the chin. Without 

 these unfinished lines below the muzzle (which, however, together with the 

 short parallel lines of hatching on the chest and dewlap, might possibly have 

 been intended for shaggy hair), the short subtriangular outline would have 

 some resemblance to the profile of a Chillingham Bull's head, as figured in 

 Messrs. Mennell & Perkins's " Catalogue of the Mammalia of Northumberland 

 and Durham," in the ' Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field-Club,' 

 vol. vi. 1864, p. 145, fig. 3. 



On the back of this specimen two imperfect outlines of apparently bovine 

 animals are rudely sketched. The hind quarters of the one interfere with the 

 fore limbs and carcass of the other ; and both are mutilated by the imperfection 

 of the broken antler-palm. See fig. 29, page 146. 



From Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 4. This is a Reindeer's brow-antler-palm, broken by an old fracture, and 

 bearing a bold sketch, made by no uncertain hand, of the hind quarters and 

 barrel of a large Bovine animalf, as the smallness of the tail, straightness of 

 the hocks, advanced position of the male organ, and sudden rise at the withers 

 clearly indicate. The last-mentioned feature is characteristic of the Aurochs ; 

 but unfortunately the fracture interrupts the outline just where the villose 

 mane, or long shaggy hair of the neck, characteristic of the species of the 

 subgenus Bison, ought to commence. There is no drawing on the other side. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



* " Crook-knee'd and dewlap'd like Thessalian Bulls." SHAKESPEARE. 



t See ' Cavernes du Perigord,' supra eit. p. 28 ; and ' Annales So. Nat.,' loc. cit. p. 236. 



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