498 



RUMINANT1A. 



Fig. 20. 



BOVJDM. 



Skull of great extinct Ox, Scotland. 



BOS PRIMIGENIUS. Great Fossil Ox. 



Bos primigenius, 

 Bceuffossile, 

 Fossil Ox, 



BOJANUS, Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. torn. xiii. pi. II. 



p. 422. 

 CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 1823, torn. iv. p. 150, 



pi. XI. figs. 14. 

 WOODS, Description of the fossil skull of an Ox, 4to. 



1839. 

 OWEN, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 233. 



OF the two kinds of gigantic oxen which the Romans 

 discovered when they first penetrated the wilds and forests 

 of uncivilized Europe, that which they distinguished by its 

 shaggy coat and mane may be recognised in the still un- 

 tamed Aurochs of Lithuania ; and the remains of the large 

 Bovine animal described in the foregoing section, which 

 belong to the same subgenus (Bison), and which show no 



