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MAMMALIA. 



Bubalus depressicornis, Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 



Anoa, Loten MSS. in Brit. Mus.- 9 Penn. Syn. 6; Quad. 26; 



Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 746. 

 Anoa depressicornis, Sundevall, Vet. Akad. Handl. 1844, 199; 



Gray, List Mam. B. M. 153; List Osteol. B. M. 54; Gray, 



Knowsley Menag. t. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



Male and female. Celebes. From the Leyden Museum. 



OSTEOL. Skull, t. 3. f. 1, 2. 



Skull and horns. Celebes. Presented by General Hardwicke, 

 Skull and horns. Mauritius? 

 Skull and horns. Mauritius ? 



This animal was first noticed by Governor Loten. It was 

 afterwards described by Colonel Hamilton Smith from a head with 

 horns in the Museum of the College of Surgeons. A similar 

 head was received by General Hardwicke (which was given by 

 him to the British Museum), accompanied by a sketch of the 

 head and front part of the body of the animal, which is copied 

 in Gray's Spicilegia. MM. Quoy and Gaimard afterwards pub- 

 lished a figure of the animal, and took two male specimens with 

 them to Paris, one of which was transmitted to Knowsley, in ex- 

 change for the specimen of Oreas Canna sent to Paris by the Earl 

 of Derby : this specimen is figured in the Knowsley Menagerie. 



* Intermaxillaries short, triangular, not reaching to the edge of 

 the nasal bone; the upper lip bald, callous and moist, only as 

 wide as the inner edge of the nostrils. 



Mr. Turner observes : " I fear that Mr. Gray's distinction in 

 the extent of the intermaxillary bones upon the sides of the nasal 

 aperture will not always hold good." Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 

 Since this remark was penned, I have re-examined many speci- 

 mens of the skull of this genus and of other oxen, and do not 

 find any reason to doubt the validity of the distinction ; I have 

 not found a single Bison's skull with an elongated intermaxillary, 

 nor an Ox or Buffalo with a short one. It would have been 

 better if Mr. Turner had cited the example which made him 

 doubt ; when I applied to him on the subject, he owned that he 

 could not refer me to a specimen to verify his remarks. 



4. BIBOS. 



Horns depressed at the base, directed outwards, posterior on 

 the hinder ridge of the frontal bone, which is often very promi- 

 nent, recurved at the tip. Withers high, keeled, supported by the 

 spinous processes of the dorsal vertebra, and suddenly lower be- 



