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Prof. Nilsson on the extinct and existing 



The concavity of the temple is at the 

 front it is obliquely pointed ; 

 the hind part (as far as the 

 socket of the under-jaw) 

 twice as broad as the front 

 part; the foramen of the 

 occiput more high than broad. 

 Besides the two skulls of this 

 sort which the museum at 

 present possesses, and of 

 which also the younger is 

 represented below, I have 

 seen a third at the British Museum 

 also belongs to the same species. 



An old Bull (?) 



from Djurmoss 



near Saxtorp in 



Scania. 



back transversely obtuse, in 

 Fig. 4. 



lin. 

 4 

 



Bos frontosus. 

 in London, which probably 



A young specimen A rather young 



from a turf-bog in one in the Bri- 



the district of Sky tts tish Museum . 

 in southern Scania. 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Length of frontal bones 12 



Length of orbits 3 



Length between horn-crown 

 and orbits 5 



Breadth between horn-crown 

 above 8 



Between horn-crown below... 10 



Breadth of forehead's smallest 

 part 7 



Breadth between the upper 

 edges of the orbits 10 



Breadth in the centre above 

 the orbits 8 



The circumference of the horn- 

 core near the roots 8 



The size of these skulls denotes a species of Ox, which, although 

 much less than the Bos pri- 

 migeniuSy is yet consider- **£• 5 *- 



ably larger than the Bos 

 longifrons. It seems to have 

 been about the size of our 

 common cow ; from which, 

 however, in form it totally 

 differs. In the museum 

 here are to be seen some 

 loose bones which seem to 

 have belonged to this spe- 

 cies. They are found in Bos frontosus. 

 turf-bogs under the Jaravall in southern Scania, and in such a 



* In the series of remains of the skull and horn- cores of the Bos longifrons 

 preserved in the British Museum and that of the College of Surgeons, there 



