464 Illustrations of the Genera of the Bovince. [No. 114. 



the rest of the interior is nude ; the auditory orifice is at the very bot- 

 tom of the ears, small and round, and protected on the anteal side by a 

 process equivalent to the tragus, but wholly internal above this a short 

 transverse biiobate process defining the upper line of the small and 

 vague concha, and having a deep inclination above it answering to the 

 lower ridge of the antihelix and seapha respectively. 



The eyes are rather small, oblique, full with oblong oblique pupil and 

 large soft lashes to upper lid. The horns are very remote, short thick, 

 directed nearly outwards and a little backwards with the tips recurved 

 inwards arid backwards. They have a very broad base passing gradually 

 into skin and posteally secreting and nude. They are depressed and 

 subtriangular, the broadest faces being the superior and inferior, and the 

 third of the triangle, the posteal face : the anteal is reduced to an ob- 

 tusely rounded edge merely : the trigonal form gradually gives way 

 upwards, and the recurves are conic, ending in a sharp point : two or 

 three heavy rugse near base : rest of horn very smooth and glossy : colour 

 pale green with black points. As already noted, the horns lie If inch 

 below the crest of the forehead ; but a portion of their base passes a 

 good way behind that crest, which ends on the occipital surface of the 

 head in a small segment of a circle, below which the plane of the occi- 

 put is quite and falls perpendicularly on the nape with a clear dip of se- 

 veral inches wholly unoccupied by the muscular attachments of the neck. 



The hoofs in the living animal are not spread, but rather compressed, 

 with the flat sides of the cleft nearly touching. The sole is flat, rounded, 

 softish, and ascending posteallywards the false hoofs which are con- 

 siderably developed and conical, the fore hoofs larger than the hind : 

 the neck short thick, and sunk between the frontal and dorsal crests the 

 shoulders and trunk very massive and deep, being surmounted by an 

 elevated dorsal ridge conterminous with the ribs : the hind limbs and 

 croup lower and feebler; the barrel tapering ventrally towards the 

 hind legs : limbs low, stout, fine ; tail hardly reaching the hocks, slender, 

 cylindeco-tapered, closely haired and ending in a full tuft. The hide is 

 exceedingly thick : the hair close, glossy and of one sort only, though 

 the specimen be a mature male killed in mid winter. On the forehead, 

 on the chin, and thence to the chest (along the abdominal aspect of neck) 

 and on the fronts of the limbs below the central flexures, and there 

 only, is the hair a little elongated and slightly waved or curled; but 

 only slightly and every where else the coat is short, straight and ap- 

 plied. The hairs of the tail tuft also are course, a little elongated. 



There are 4 teats plainly developed and running in two lines on either 



