1841.] Illustrations of the Genera of the Bovince* 4G3 



Lengthof hind hoof 5 6 f 



Greatest breadth of ditto 4 5 f 



Horns length outside curoge 19 4 6 



Terminal interval of tips 190 1 9 | 



Nearest basal interval posteal 7 ant — 6 



Remotest basal interval anteal 1 1 § post 10 



Weight of scull and horns 32 lbs 30 lbs. 



Girth of horns at base 1 6 \ 1 8 



Character of the heads with their integuments. 

 Gouri Gau. The head is large and massive with great breadth and depth 

 rapidly diminishng towards the gape where the ample lips and muzzle cause 

 it to swell again : the straightness of facial line is slightly interrupted by 

 the arcuation of the chaffron, even before you reach that light point where 

 the frontals commence to make their huge curved sweep towards the occi- 

 put. The crest of this sweep is about If inch above the horns ; its anteal 

 base 5f, and its posteal, 2| above the proximate planes, fore and aft. 

 Its form is almost cylindric between the bases of the horns which occupy 

 its ends entirely, and pass behind it on the dorsal surface ; muzzle of 

 small size for a taurine animal and somewhat indented curvately on 

 superior edge instead of running straight across between tops of nares ; 

 nares broad, lunate and oblique : upper lip full, laxly applied to head, 

 and falling over lower lip which has a small beard : both lips near the 

 gape have large soft pointed and recurved papilla?. The 8 incisors below, 

 which are ranged in a small arch with broad nearly level crowns, are 

 quite moveable in the gums : the chaffron is of medial length and boldly 

 convexed lengthwise and across : the forehead is long, broad and flat, 

 till the arched sweep between the horns commences at 7 inches from 

 the extreme anteal base of forehead or a line drawn across the anteal 

 points of orbits : From this line to the crest of forehead there is a length 

 exactly equal to the greatest breadth between the orbits, which is at 

 their posteal salient angles. From the great length and bread the of 

 forehead result the low position and great separation of the eyes. 

 The interval between them across the top of the chaffron is one foot by 

 the natural curve; and the distance from their anterior canthurs to the 

 nearest base of the horn is 5j inches. In the Arna the same interval is 

 but 8| ; and the same distauce, but 3. The ears are of ample size and 

 spread greatly towards the tips, the shape being somewhat ovoid ; from 

 anterior edge of helix proceed some long hairs, and the lower margin 

 is indented by short striee of closer hairs which run all round its edge : 



