12$ Notices of various Animal Remain* 



of its bones, it had rather resembled a deer than an ox. 

 The forehead upwards over the eyes is flattened, with an edge 

 going along the frontal seam, which is most prominent up- 

 wards, and ends with a rounded indenting backwards. Be- 

 tween the eyes, is a more or less considerable depression, 

 above which there is often a rising, and beneath which lies 

 the incision for the nasal bones, which go right up to the 

 line drawn between the lower borders of the orbits. (Thus 

 the frontal bones are not longer in this species than they are 

 in the Urus or Taurus.) The horn cores are small, cylin- 

 drical, short, curved only in one direction forwards ; some- 

 times, though seldom, downwards, in the plane of the fore- 

 head. The form of the temporal cavity is, behind, transverse- 

 obtuse ; before, oblique-pointed ; its hinder part (to the angle 

 above the joint of the under jaw), only one-fourth part 

 broader than the forepart The anterior palatine apertures 

 lancet-shaped, at the back oblique inward-pointed ; the back 

 ones lie between the palate bones ; the nape transverse, up- 

 wards with a vertical indenting ; downwards with a vertical 

 edge over the circular foramen of the nape. The skull of 

 this species varies considerably in size, and even something 

 in form, according to its age and sex. The species, how- 

 ever, is always known by a protuberance upon the upper 

 part of the forehead in front, and an indenting backwards." 

 (The italics I may observe, are not in the original.) He 

 gives a table, also, of the usual dimensions of young speci- 

 mens, which I have added to mine, to shew their general 

 correspondence. 



These four skulls then, (before you,) which were found 

 near the village of Newstead, Roxburghshire, seem to me to 

 agree so very closely with all these distinctive characters, as 

 to prove them to have been very nearly allied indeed, if not 

 absolutely identical with, the B. longifrons ; and should you 

 agree with me in this opinion, then I may say, I consider 

 these as of course proving their existence in the south of 

 Scotland at the time of the Roman occupation of the country, 

 of which, as far as I am aware, these skulls are the only 

 evidence. 



The examination of the skulls of cattle, which had un- 



