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the maxilla and the nasal (text-fig. 74). As it happens, there is 

 a skull of one of the so-called " wild " white Cadzow cattle from 

 Hamilton Park in the Royal Scottish Museum Avhich probably 

 belonged to an Ox including the Celtic Shorthorn amongst its an- 

 cestors. In this Ox (text-fig, 75), though the premaxilla is 142mm, 

 in length it neither reaches the nasal nor yet extends into the gap 



Text-fig, 79, 



F.M. 



F.M. 



Outlines of tlie occiput and part of the forehead of three Urus skulls. 



J?}\, frontal ; F.3I., upper border o( foramen magnum. 

 In all three skulls the iutercornual ridge projects far beyond occipital condyles. 

 From skulls in the Anatomical, Antiquarian, and Free Church College 

 Museums, Edinbiirgh. 



between the maxilla and nasal. In shape and in being notched at 

 its proximal end, it reminds one of the premaxilla of the Celtic 

 Shorthorn (text- fig. 73). Another skull with premaxillte which fail 

 to reach the nasals may be mentioned, because it has many of the 



