44 MAMMALIA. 



OSTEOLOGY. Skull, t. 5. f. 1, 2. 



Bos moschatus, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 10. f. 15-17, t. 13. f. 3, 



8, t. 11. f. 1, 4; Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xvii. t. 17; 



Schreb. Saugth. t. 302 B ; Hermann, Naturf. xix. t. 5. 

 Boeuf Musque, Bujfon, H. N. Supp. vi. t. 3. 



Skull and horns. 



Skull and horns, imperfect. 



Var. 1 . Subfossil. North-west Coast, America. 



Bos Pallasii, Dekay, Ann. Lye. N. York, ii. 6 ; Siebel, Fauna 



der Vorwelt, i. 164. 

 Bos canaliculatus, Fischer, Nouv. Mem. Acad. Nat. Moscou, 1834, 



iii. 287; Oryct. Moscou, 116. 

 Bos moschatus, Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xvii. t. 17; Eze- 



retskowsky, Mem. Acad. Petersb. iii. 215. t. 6; Cuvier, Oss. 



Foss. iv. 150. t. 3. f. 3, 8, t. 11. f. 1, 4. 

 B. moschatus j3. fossilis, Fischer, Syn. Mam. 494. 



8. BUDORCAS. 



Muzzle hairy, with a small naked muffle only edging the nos- 

 trils ; ears narrow, pointed. The fur (in summer at least) con- 

 sists of short, harsh, adpressed hair. The tail is short, very de- 

 pressed and hairy, like the tail of a goat. The head is large and 

 heavy. The lips taper, and are clad with hair, like sheep. The 

 nostrils are wide and terminal. The horns are round, smooth, 

 lunate ; they are nearly in contact on the top of the head ; their 

 direction is vertically upwards, then horizontally outwards or to 

 the sides, and then almost as horizontally backwards. The limbs 

 short and straight; the hoofs broad. Skull, t. 5. f. 3, 4. 



Budorcas, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1850; Gray, 



Knowsley Menag. ; Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 

 Nemorhaedus, sp., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 



Mr. Hodgson observes, " The Takin is the nearest ally to the 

 Grt.oos, but has various points of stronger connection with Musk 

 Oxen. Horns are on the highest part of the forehead, as in the 

 Ox and Sheep, though not, as in them, at the posteal termina- 

 tion of the head, for the encephalon of our animal is spread be- 

 hind its horns, in the manner of the Deer and Antelopes, but 

 more restrictedly. The horns are attached, not to the lateral 

 margins of the frontal crest, as in the Ox, but to its superior 

 surface, as in the Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep. The horns are 

 nearly in contact on the top of the head, but without actual 

 touching ; their direction is vertically upwards, then horizontally 

 outwards or to the sides, then almost as horizontally backwards. 

 Lips are both taper and clad with hair, almost as much as in 



