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towards the nose. The intercornual crest is elevated, bold, arched, 

 and overhanging the forehead, which is deeply concave. The orbits 

 are massive, salient, and give to the eyes a somewhat lateral direction. 

 The nasal bones are comparatively large, lengthened, depressed at their 

 junction with the frontal bones, convex in the middle, with a lateral 

 concavity on each side ; the medial suture is only indicated by an in- 

 dented line ; the suture which, in the ox, divides the frontal bone through 

 its entire length, extends only about two inches above the nasal bone. 



In the Asseel the skull above has nothing of the massiveness 

 belonging to the Gour. Its general form is more oblong, narrow, 

 regular, and resembling that of the common ox. The intercornual 

 crest is slightly arched, but not massive or overhanging, and passes 

 into a very slight frontal concavity. The orbits are not salient, and 

 give the eye a more anterior direction. The nasal bones are narrow, 

 slightly convex, not depressed at their junction with the frontal bone, 

 and divided by a distinct medial suture, which is continued through 

 more than half of the frontal bone. The direction of the sutures by 

 which the separate bones composing the skulls respectively are divided, 

 varies considerably in the Gour and Asseel. 



The horns in the Gour are of extraordinary dimensions, and very 

 roughly grooved transversely. In the Asseel they are comparatively 

 slender ; they are inserted at the sides of the ridge which separates the 

 front from the occiput. At the base they are irregularly triangular and 

 cylindrico-compressed ; they rise with a curve, having an outward or 

 lateral direction to about half-way of their length ; they then bend 

 inward, with a slight flexure backward, giving the points an oblique 

 posteal direction ; the basal part is wrinkled on all sides. The medial 

 and terminal surfaces are smooth ; they measure, along the exterior 

 flexure, twenty inches. 



265. BIBOS BANTENG, Gray, Knowsley M magerie, p. 48. 

 Bos Sondaicus, Schlegel en Mutter, over de Ossen von den 



Indischen Archipel. Verhandl. over de Natuurl. 



Gesch. SfC.p. 195. 

 BANTENG, of the Javanese, to which the Dutch add the 



terminal er (BANTENGER), to suit the idiom of their 



HAB. Java and Borneo. 



A. Horns on frontal bone, presented by the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal. 



