I3y 



(j. Capricornis. 



Cornua in utroque sexu. 

 Sinus lachrymales magni. 

 Fossce interdigitales distinctae. 

 FoUiculi inguinales nulli. 

 Mammce quatuor. 

 Typus est C. Thar (Ant. Thar. Hodg.). 



7. BUBALUS. 



Cornua in utroque sexu. 

 Sinus lachrymales exigui, distincti. 

 Fossa: interdigitales magnse. 

 FoUiculi inguinales nulli. 

 Mammce duse. 

 Typus est Bubalus Mauritanicus {Ant. Bubalus). 



8. Oryx. 



Cornua in utroque sexu. 

 Sinus lachrymales nulli. 

 Fossce interdigitales magnse. 

 FoUiculi inguinales nulli. 

 Mammae quatuor. 

 Species sunt 0. Capensis {Ant. Oryx), Leucoryx, Leucophtea, &c. 



9. Bos. 



Cornua in utroque sexu. 

 Sinus lachrymales nulli. 

 Fossce interdigitales nulla;. 

 FoUiculi inguinales nulli. 

 Mammce quatuor. 

 Typus est Bos Taurus. 



" I have here confined myself strictly to generic characters ; the 

 synonyma and discrimination of species will form the subject of a 

 future monograph ; in the mean time, with t^ie assistance of the Ar- 

 ticle Antelope in the Penny Cyclopsedia, or, with the proper cor- 

 rections, of Col. Smith's Treatise on the Ruminants in the fourth 

 volume of Griffith's Translation of the ' Regne Animal,' the student 

 will have no difficulty in referring any particular species to its appro- 

 juinte genus. He will thus be enabled to judge of the coiTCctness or 

 incorrectness of the affinities here indicated, and consequently to form 

 a tolerable estimate of the value of the characters by which I propose 

 to distinguish the genera of ruminating animals ; and indeed it is 

 principally from the wish to excite the attention of zoologists to 

 more extensive observation than I myself possess, that I have been 

 induced to publish the present analysis of my own investigations in 

 this dejjartment of Mammalogy." 



Mr. Gould exhibited numerous examples of the genus Strix (as 

 at present restricted), from numerous parts of the globe, including 

 three undescribed species from Australia, which he characterizes as 

 follows : 



