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The Leicester Museum possesses two teeth—one from Barrow- 
on-Soar, and the other, a remarkably fine one, from Thorpe 
Arnold. These were originally both labelled E. primigenius, 
but, suspecting that they were referable to EH. antiquus, I took 
the opinion of Mr. R. Etheridge, F.R.S., of the British Museum 
(Nat. Hist.), who kindly settled the matter by confirming my 
impression. 
Family RaInocERorTips. 
Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Cuvier. Extinct Hairy Rhinoceros.— 
A few bones and numerous teeth of this extinct species have been 
found in the Belgrave and other gravels with the remains of 
Elephants. The Museum possesses a fine series of teeth from 
Belgrave and Thurmaston. ; 
Family Bovip2. 
Bos primigenius, Bojanus. Extinct Wild Ox.—Bones of the 
fore and hind limbs, the pelvic girdle, teeth, and nearly perfect 
crania with horn-cores attached, have been found in excavations 
in the post-tertiary gravels. One fine skull with horn-cores 
attached —from the Abbey Meadow, 1880—is in the Town 
Museum. A fine left metacarpus, very much larger than that in 
existing cattle, was discovered in post-tertiary gravel at Willow 
Bridge in September, 1881, by Mr. J. Hay, who sent it to me for 
identification, and afterwards kindly presented it to the Museum. 
A large horn-core from Archdeacon Lane, discovered some years 
since, and having about one-third of its length broken, measures 
in girth, just above burr, nearly 14 inches, and, at 7 inches 
above that point, nearly 11 inches. 
Bos longifrons, Owen. Extinct Long-faced Ox.—A nearly 
perfect skull with horn-cores attached, found in the Abbey 
Meadow, is in the Leicester Museum. It is always exceedingly 
difficult, in such a town as Leicester, inhabited as it has been 
by man from a period long anterior to the Roman occupation, to 
draw the line between bones of the oxen of historic and those of 
pre-historic times; but there is, I think, no doubt that many 
of the specimens found in Leicestershire may be, from their 
peculiarities and the position in which they are found, fairly 
credited to one or the other of the two pre-historic cattle 
mentioned. On the other hand, in the case of the Hquide 
(Horse, Ass, &c.), whose remains are so constantly found in 
