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In the accompanying illustrations we have a good specimen of the cra- 
nium and of a part of the lower jaw and tusks of our ancient Ivish pig, 
but whether from domesticated animals cannot now be determined. This 
Cay wo 
Fig. 12. 
head, which measures only 114 inches, was found under the bed of 
the River Brosna, above Ballycumber Bridge, King’s County, and was 
presented by the Board of Works; the lower 
jaw was procured from Lough Gurr, county 
of Limerick, and is of a yellowish-brown co- 
lour, such as all the bones found in that 
locality present. 
There are the remains of nine pigs in the 
Academy’s collection, besides several tusks. % 
No. 1, figured above; No. 2, from the Bal- 
linderry lake, is a little longer, and was 
\ presented by Dr. Lentaigne; Nos. 3 and 4 - 
are crania of swine, slightly imperfect, procured from the Dunshaughlin 
crannoge, and were deposited in the Academy by the author. No. 5, 
ditto; locality unknown. Nos. 6 and 7, anterior portions of lower jaws, 
procured from Lough Gurr. Nos. 8 and 9, fragments of lower jaws. 
*Oxen.—Having already described in the Proceedings for June 14, 
1858, the varieties of horned cattle which formerly existed in Ireland, 
I have now but to put on record the registration of that great collection, 
amounting to forty specimens at present in the Academy, and to revise 
some of the opinions which I put forward in my former publication upon 
this subject. 
From a recent inspection of all the zoological museums of note in 
Scandinavia and Northern Germany, I am led to entertain the views 
advanced by Professor Nilsson, of Lund, that the modern Auroch pre- 
served in the Lithuanian Forests is a Bison, similar in character to that 
of America, and is not identical with the great extinct Urus of the an- 
cients, or Bos primigenius of Owen, of which Nilsson possesses the 
largest and finest collection in Europe. It would also appear from 
Nilsson’s investigations, that very many of the ox-heads in our collec- 
tion belong to his variety of Bos frontosus in which the ‘‘ridge of the occi- 
put rises high in the centre, convex; horns short, somewhat depressed 
at the root, directed outwards and backwards, then bent forward.” 
The figure I have given at page 70 of this volume of the Proceedings is 
Fig. 13. 
