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length of line of molars, left side, 6-1 inches; width of frontal at con- 

 striction behind the orbits, 7-1 inches ; ditto between the outer borders 

 of the orbits, 9 inches ; height from surfiice of occipital condyle to 

 plane of frontal at vertex, 6-4 inches ; length of nasals to commence- 

 ment of incisive bone, 7-2 inches; width of face immediately in front 

 cf orbits, 6-2 inches ; ditto at the maxillary tuberosities, 5-9 inches ; 

 ditto at commencement of diastema, 3-4 inches. 



Interval between outer margin of zygomatic arches, 8-2 inches ; in- 

 terval between external surface of maxillaries at the rear of the back 

 molar, 4-7 inches ; ditto, at commencement of penultimate molar, 

 5-3 inches; interval between inside of back molars^ 3-1 inches; ditto, 

 between the penultimate molars, 3-2 inches ; ditto, in front between the 

 two premolars, 2-9.; width between the diastemal ridges of the maxilla- 

 ries, 1-5 inch ; from anterior border of orbit to infra-orbital foramen, 

 6"2 inches. 



The interfrontal suture is distinctly shown, also the transfrontal and 

 the other sutures of the face. 



From the description and dimensions above given, the cranium is 

 considered to indicate a distinct species of Bos and to agree with the 

 specimens Nos. 32, 34, and 35, and to be a female. The general form 

 presents many analogies with the cranium of Bos jyrimigenins figured in 

 Owen's Brit. Fossil Mammalia, fig. 208, page 498, and with the crania 

 figured in the Ossemens Fossiles, PI. CLXXII., figs. 1 and 2. 



No. 47. Bos Namadicus'] — Fragment of cranium, very much muti- 

 lated, showing only occiput with occipital condyles, foramen magnum, 

 and right mastoid process, with a nest of calcareous crystals occupying 

 the cranial cavity and the cancelli of the hollow vertex. This must 

 have belonged to an animal of very large size. Query? Did the huge 

 horn-core No. 31 belong to this cranium? 



Ill — Description by Dr. Falconer of Fossil Remains of Antelope, 

 ■ from the Sewalik Hills, in the Museum of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal. 



No. 569. Antilope. — Fragment of skull, comprising the whole of the 

 cranial portion nearly entire with the occipital and parietal regions, 

 right orbit, and the bases of two horn-cores, that on the left side 1^ in. 

 long. The animal was of a size between the Nylghau and the Antilope 

 cervicapra ; the ii-ontal on either side shows a prominent ridge from 

 the base of the horn towards the occiput as in the Nylghau ; the fron- 

 tals are too much mutilated to show whether there are ridges in front 

 of the horn. The horn-cores are cylindrical and appear to start from 

 the brow as in Antilope cervicapra ; tympanic bullas large. 



No. 578. Antilope. — Fragment of cranium of an antelope, comprising 

 the left frontal detached, with a thick cylindrical horn-core attached, 

 and showing a part of the cup of the left orbit. It corresponds very 

 closely in size and appearance with 569, and probably belonged to the 

 same species which is considerably larger than Antilope cervicapra. 



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