SYNOPSIS OF THE 



forwards ; no mane ; a deep dewlap ; thirteen pair of ribs ; 

 tail long ; udder four teats in a square. 



898. 10. B. Urus (the Urus.) In a fossil state of col- 

 lossal size ; the later Uri possessed of the above charac- 

 ters, but the horns turning downward and forward, ex- 

 cepting in two figures quoted in the text, in which they 

 are forward with the tips turned up, white, the ends 

 black : the form of a domestic bull, entirely black, except- 

 ing the chin, which is white. 



Var. Bos Scoticus, smaller than the usual domestic 

 bull, entirely white; horns dark, pointing downwards; 

 a large breed of the same in Hamilton Park. 



Bos Urus, Herberstein, Cuvier. The true Aurox of the 

 Germans^ Thur, Polish. Wild Bull of Scotland, Pen. 

 Shaw. 



Icon. The Black Species. Herber stein. Nobis. The 

 Scottish. Pent. Bewick. Nobis. 



Habitat. Formerly the forests of Middle Europe, Li- 

 thuania, Massovia, SfC, probably the temperate parts of 

 Tartary, the white species ; England. 



Var. Bos Taurus, the Domestic Ox, has the same cha- 

 racters, varied by circumstances, for which we refer to the 

 text, where the principal varieties are enumerated. 



Order VIH.— CETACEA. 



Body pisciform, terminated by a caudal appendage, carti- 

 laginous and horizontal ; two anterior extremities formed 

 like fins, the bones of which are very much flatted and 

 short ; head joined to the body by a very short and thick 

 neck; cervical vertebras very slender, and partly soldered 

 together ; two pectoral or abdominal teats ; ears with very 

 small external openings ; skin more or less thick, without 

 hair ; brain large, hemisphere well developed ; bone of the 



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