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remarked, and also straight, between the cores of the horns. The cores 

 of the horns spring proximately and superiorly from the highest part 

 of the frontals, having with regard to their culminal position an Ovine 

 (Ammon) and Bovine character, but with regard to their proximity an 

 anti-bovine but still Ovine character. The bone of which the horn 

 cores is composed is not palpably porous, though it is by no means dense 

 in structure ; and there is, within the base of each core, a large but 

 shallow sinus confined to the base, and communicating externally (the 

 scull) with the supraorbitar foramina, and internally with the nasal 

 cavity. The parietes have, as already remarked, a Cervine or Antilo- 

 pine character, quite opposed to the Bovine type, but passing from the 

 true Cervine to the abnormal Antilopine type as seen in the Goral 

 (Kemas* goral) of these mountains. The orbits are signally promi- 

 nent, more so than in any Bovine animal, save the Gour (Bibos gaurus), 

 and equally so with the typical Antelopes such as Cervicapra Hodg- 

 soni, &c. : but their direction is still quite lateral, owing to the equal 

 development and projection of all parts of the external rim of the orbit, 

 there being no obliquity to the front, nor any greater development of 

 its posteal than anteal margin, in the orbitar ring. The margin of the 

 orbits is extremely rugose all round. The lower jaw, as already noticed, 

 has little upward curvature forwards, being nearly straight. Its posteal 

 and vertical portion (coracoid) is much developed and the articulating 

 surface or hinge of the jaws is consequently elevated far above the line 

 of the upper molar teeth. Owing to the narrowness of the lower jaw 

 in front, the incisor teeth are inserted in a curve as in Ovis and Capra, 

 not rectilinearly to the front as in Bos. The teeth are f£-J-, there be- 

 ing no canines, and the usual number of molars and incisors. The mo- 

 lar teeth are large and occupy a greater space in the jaws than either 

 in Bos or Ovis, and they are noticeable also for their length or eleva- 

 tion above the margin of the jaws. Their crowns have the usual obli- 

 quity outwards and the usual folds of enamel ; but the saliency of the 

 enamelled ridges is specially observable, independently of youth. The 

 incisors lean less forwards or outwards than in Bos, more so than in 

 Ovis (Ammon), and their crowns have a medial degree of obliqueness 

 or slope inwards. 



* See J. A. S, No. 181, for July, 184 7. 



