MAMMALIA. 17 



upper part of the ridge at the hinder end of the occipital plane. 



The facial and frontal portion of the skull equal. Dorsal ridge 



distinct, sometimes produced into a dorsal hump. 



Bos, sp., Linn. ; Desm. 1804 ; Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 



Taurus, Storr. Prod. Mam. 17; H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 182. 



Bos (and Boves), Sundevall, Pecora, 75. 



Bos, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 1849. 



1. Bos TAURUS. The BULL. 

 Forehead flat ; withers not humped. 



Bos Taurus, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. c. 45, 46 ; Gesner, Quad. 24- 



103, fig.; Aldrov. Bisulc. 13. fig. p. 36; Jonston, Quad. t. 15. 

 Taurus castratus, Jonston, Quad. t. 15. 

 Vacca, Gesner, Quad. 25. fig. 

 Vitutus, Jonston, Quad. t. 15. 

 Bos domesticus, Jonst. Quad. 36. t. 14 ; Linn. Mus. Adolph. 



Frid. i. 12 ; Brisson, Reg. An. 78. 

 Bos Taurus, Linn. Fn. Suec. 15 ; Syst. Nat. i. 98 ; Gmelin, S. N. 



i. 202; Cuvier in Diet. Sci. Nat. v. 19; Desm. Nov. Diet. H. 



N. iii. 536 ; Mamm. 499 ; Desmoul. Diet. Class. H. N. ii. 370 ; 



Fischer, Syn. Mam. 499 ; Gray, List Mam. Brit. Mus. 151 ; 



List Osteol. sp. B. M. 53; List of Mr. Hodgson's Collection, 24. 

 Bos (Taurus) taurus, Lesson, Nov. Tab. R. A. 185. 

 Bull, Penn. Syn. 4. 

 Ox, Penn. Brit. Zool. 1 . 

 Common Ox, Shaw, Zool. ii. 2. 397. t. 208. 

 Stier and Ochs, Meyer, Thiere, t. 41, 42 ; Schrank, Fn. Boic. i. 47. 

 Bceuf, Buffon, H. N. iv. 437- t. 14. 

 Oxe, Koe, Pontopp. Dan. i. 597. 

 Hob. Europe. Always in a domesticated state. 



1. W nite Scotch Bull, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 151. 



Bisontes jubati, Boethius, Reg. Scot. ; Gesner, App. 4, fig. imag. 

 White Urus (Urus Scoticus), H. Smith, Griff. A. K. iv. 41?. 

 Bos Urus Scoticus, Wagner, Schreb. S. 1568. 

 Chillingham Bull, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 284 ; Knight, Mus. 



Animated Nature, f. 695, 696. 

 Bos Scoticus, Swainson. 

 Bos Taurus Scoticus, H. Smith in Griffith A. K. v. 376; 



Fischer, Mam. 654. 

 Wild or White Forest Cow and Bull, Low, Dom. Anim. B. I. 



t. 1 9 , fy Supp. t. 1 <? . 



Wild Cattle, Bull and Cow, Bewick, Hist. Quad. 38. fig. 

 Hob. Scotland. 



a. Bull. Chillingham Park. Presented by the Earl of Tan- 

 kerville. 



