OVIBOS MOSCHATUS. 



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themselves agree exactly with those of the recent animal, and their description therefore 

 would be superfluous. At a distance of l - 8 inches from the horncores a ridge runs across 

 the frontals, from the roof of one orbit to the other, and is much more pronounced than in 

 any of the skulls of the existing Musk Sheep. A reference to the Table of skull measure- 



Section. North side of Stonehams Fit, Cray ford, with skull of Ovibos moschatus. 



Feet. 



±1 ^> 5. Trail 



6. Rriinwash. 



4. Sharp sand with Corbicula fluminalis. 



3. Chocolate-coloured brick-earth. Mammals. 



2. Gravel of black flints. 



'"//////////////////////////////„„!/,„lll/!l/llll, 



-jSjth inch to 1 foot. 



1. Brick-earth. 



W///i Sand and gravel not seen in section. 



ments will show (p. 12) that this skull surpasses in size any of those which are recorded 

 of the living or fossil animal. The exact position in which it was found is shown in the 

 preceding section, taken on the north side of an old working, and not very far from the 

 Manager's Office. 



This section agrees essentially with that taken at some distance off, and published in 

 my paper on the Lower Brick-earths of the Thames Valley. 1 No. 3, which furnished the 

 head, is the principal mammaliferous bed in the pit. The lists of mammalia and shells 

 obtained out of the same pit, and preserved in the collections of Mr. Grantham and 

 Dr. Spurrell, are reproduced, because of their peculiar value in relation to the presence of 

 the Musk Sheep. 



1 ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' vol. xxiii, p. 9fi. 



