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XLII. — On the extinct and existing Bovine Animals of 

 Scandinavia. By Prof. Nilsson of Lund. 



[Concluded from p. 355.] 



4. Bison Ox (Bos Bison, Linn.), fig. 8 & 9. 



The Wisent or the Bison of the ancients ; the Aurochs of the 

 moderns. 



Fig. 8. 



Bos Bison. 



Gen. Char. The forehead convex, the distance between the crown 

 of the horns and the orbits a little longer than its diameter. 

 The horn- cores directed outward and somewhat backward, 

 also curved in a direction forward upward. 



Syn. Bos Bison, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 99; Gesn. Hist. Animal, i. 

 p. 128, with figure. Jubati Bisontes, Plin. viii. 15. Bisontes setosi, colla 

 jubis horrida, Solin. Villosi Bisontes, Senec. Bison, Gilbert Opuscul. 

 p. 70. Zubr, V. Jarocki, Versaml. der Naturforscher in Hamb. 1830, 

 with two figures. Bos Urus, Eichwald, Zool. special, i. p. 342, with 

 figures. Auer, Eichw. Natur. Histor. Skizze, p. 241, with figures. Idem, 

 Urus (Zubr), Fauna Caspio-Caucas. p. 31. Aurochs, Cuv. Recherches 

 s. 1. oss. foss. iv. p. 108 et seq. Id. pi. 9. fig. 1, 2; pi. 10. fig. 1, 2 ; 

 pi. 12. fig. 6, 7. Aurochs des Allemands, Cuv. Regn. anim. i. p. 279. 



Fossil: Cuv. Rech. iv. pi. 12. fig. 1, 2, 4 ; pi. 9. fig. 5. Bison priscus, Owen, 

 Brit. Foss. Mam. p. 491. fig. 205. Vroxe tjur, Retz. Vet. Akad. Handl. 

 1802, p. 280. in Lithuania : Zubr (Schuber). In Germany : Aurochs; 

 Aurthier : in ancient times, Wisent or Wisund. 



Exterior description. — This colossal Ox of former times, of 

 whose form and locality we can judge, not from its fossil skeleton 

 alone, but also from its yet living descendants, was in many 



