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existing form. From the complete synostosis of the two frontals, it is 

 inferred that the animal was an aged adult ; and the smaller size of the 

 horn, as compared with specimen No. 30, would seem to indicate that 

 it was a female. ^ 



The forehead of this specimen is flat and slightly concave above ; it 

 is square, taking the base between the orbit ; its height is about equal 

 to its breadth. The horns are attached to the extremity of the highest 

 salient line of the head ; the plane of the occiput forms an acute angle 

 with the forehead (it is over-arched), and the plane of the occiput is 

 nearly quadrangular, instead of semi- circular, all these being distinc- 

 tive characters of the Taurine Bovidce (ox), as contrasted with the 

 Bisons and Aurochs. {Vide Cuvier, Menagerie du Museum, article 

 ' Zebu,' p. 4.) 



No. 34. Bos Namadicus. — Specimen of the posterior part of the 

 cranium, nearly perfect on the left side from the vertex to the middle 

 of the orbit ; mutilated on the right side ; the inter -frontal suture, and 

 that uniting the two lateral occipitals with the superior occipital are 

 widely open, showing that the animal was very young, which is further 

 borne out by the dimensions. The left horn-core is attached to the 

 extent of about 5 inches and is given off horizontally, with a slight 

 inclination upwards. The occipital condyles, the styloids, and tym- 

 panic bulla; are entire on both sides, together with the auditory 

 foramina and the whole of the basi-sphenoid region. The right side of 

 the vertex and the upper part of the frontal, together with the right 

 orbit, are gone. Part of the left orbit remains. The plane of the 

 frontal exhibits the same general form as in specimen No. 33, and the 

 vertex projects posteriorly, overarching the occipital exactly as in that 

 specimen. Length of fragment from vertex to anterior fracture, 

 6-5- inches; width of forehead at constriction behind the orbits, G^ 

 inches; long diameter, 2'6 inches; short diameter, 2'3 inches; ex- 

 treme distance between the outer border of the two occipital condyles, 

 3'6 inches. The core is cylindrical in section, like specimen No. 31, 

 being a httle flattened in front and more convex behind. This speci- 

 men would appear to aiford further proofs of the inference derived from 

 31 and 33, as to the distinctness specifically of Bos Namadicus. 



No. 35. Bos ? — Specimen consisting of facial part of the cranium 



from the orbits, exhibiting the niaxillaries on both sides with the entire 

 line of molars in situ, the posterior part of the diastema and a portion 

 of the nasals; the intermaxillaries broken off. This specimen is exactly 

 in the same mineral condition, with a ferruginous tinge, as the cranium 

 No. 20. 



Dimensions. — Length of the molar series, right side, 5f inches ; dis- 

 tance between the outer surfaces of the molars at the middle of the 

 series, 4| inches ; width of palate taken at the rear of the last molar, 

 3 inches; ditto in the middle, 3'25 inches; ditto between anterior 

 molars, 3 inches. The molars on the right side are quite entire, they 

 are all protruded and well worn. Species indeterminable without 

 more detailed comparison. 



' Vide Dr. Spilsbury in Journ. As. Soc. xiii. 765, PL ii. fig. 3 c. 



