1847.] On Various Genera of the Ruminants. 705 



Bovin^e or Ox KIND. 



Gauadi. 

 Occipital plane of the scull forming a large angle with the frontal 

 plane. Core of the horns massive and very porous or cellular. Horns 

 in both sexes, inserted laterally on the apex of the frontal crest. 

 Canines none. Mufle very large. Teats invariably 4. Dewlap, in most, 

 normally. No eye-pits. No feet-pits. No groin-pits. 



1. Genus Bos. Oxen. 

 Gau. 



Cranium moderate, compressed, proportional, or without excess in 

 the cerebral or facial region. Frontals shorter than the face, flat, 

 and not broader than long. 



Occipital plane of the scull square, never arched along the ridge line, 

 nor indented by the temporal pits, smaller than the frontal plane and 

 forming an acute angle therewith. 



Condyles of great foramen and of lower jaw, elevated greatly, and 

 the jaw much curved. 



Horns attached to the highest line of the forehead, rounded, curved 

 up or down or forward ascendantly. 



Orbits not salient. 



Thirteen pair of ribs. 



No true dorsal ridge, but sometimes a fleshy hump. 



Mufle very large and square. 



Dewlap great. 



Type. Bos domesticus. Gau. 



2. Genus Gaveus. 

 Gavi or Gabi. 



Cranium large, having the ample flat forehead as long as the face 

 and broader than long, but not ridged nor curved along its crest. 



Occipital plane equal to the frontal plane and moderately indented 

 subcentrally by the temporal fosses, square and forming an acute angle 

 with the frontal plane. 



Condyles of great foramen and of lower jaw low, and the jaw little 

 bent. 



Orbits not salient. 



4 t 2 



