BOVIDiE, CEEVIDiE, AND ANTILOPIDJE. 281 



Dr. F. also refers to nnmerous remains of Cervus in his Cata- 

 lo^e of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; and a 

 description with figures of vertebrae and antlers of the ' fossil 

 Elk of the Himalayah,' by Lieut. Baker, but subsequently 

 referred to Sivatherium by Dr. Falconer (see page 273), will 

 be found in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ' 

 for September, 1835, vol. iv. p. 506. Another fossil species 

 of Cervus from the valley of the Nerbudda was designated by 

 Dr. Falconer, Cervus Namadicus, but has not been described. 

 Dr. Spilsbury, in his account of fossils found in the valley of 

 the Nerbudda, refers to fragments of upper and lower jaws 

 and teeth of deer. (See Journ. As. Soc. vol. x. p. 626.) 



The Sewalik fossils also included several species of Ante- 

 lopes which were designated by Dr. Falconer A. Paloeindiea, 

 A. gyricornis and A. picta, in a manuscript synopsis. Brief 

 descriptions of some of these Antelopes with figures, by 

 Messrs. Baker and Durand, will be found in the ' Journal of 

 the Asiatic Society,' vol. iv. p. 569, and vol. xii. p. 769. The 

 Antilope Palceindica is also described by Dr. Falconer in the 

 Catalogue of the MiTseum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 and the specimen thus designated is said to agree closely with 

 the Sewalik fossil Antelope, described and figured by Capt. 

 Baker, in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society ' for September, 

 1848. Capt. Baker's specimen is now in the British Museum 

 (E'o. 39,594), and is represented in Plate XXIII. from original 

 drawings by Mr. Dinkel. Among the Sewalik specimens in 

 the British Museum there are also remains of an Antelope 

 with twisted horns, probably the A. gyricornis of Falconer. 

 —Ed.] 



I. — Description by Dr. Falconer of Eemains of Large Bovine 



EUMINANTS FROM THE SeWALIK HiLLS, IN THE MuSEUM OF THE 



Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



No. 562. Bos.^ — Fine skull of a bovine ruminant, nearly perfect, 

 from the occiput on to the diastema, showing the zygomatic arches, 

 temporal fossa and the whole of the spheno-palatine region, together 

 with two lines of molars, in situ ; the crowns of those on the left side 

 broken oiF; the three posterior molars on the left side nearly entire; a 

 horn-core is present on the left side, absent on the right through a fracture, 

 which has carried it off below the base. The cranial part of the skull 

 differs remarkably from all known bovine ruminants in this respect, 

 that the occipital bone appears to terminate at the occipital crest, or 

 close to it, and that no part of the parietals enters into the occipital 

 plane. The horns are pyriform in section, with a very sharp edge 

 behind and a broad surface in front ; they are closely approximated on 



' Bos occipitalis, Falc. ? — [Ed.] 



