Classified Catalogue of Mammals of Nepal, 289 



Edentates. 



69. Manis. — 1 Sp. new. Auritus Nob. (alleged to be identical with the 



common Indian type, or Pentadactylus.) H. G. 



RUMINANTES. 



Bovine. 

 Genus Bos, Subgenera ? 



70. Bos. — Cranium moderate, 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 quadran- 

 gular, never arched along the culminal line, nor indented by 

 the temporal fossae, smaller much than the frontal plane and 

 forming an acute angle therewith. Horns attached to the 

 highest line of the forehead, rounded, moderate, curved up or 

 down or forward ; 13 pairs of ribs ; no true dorsal ridge, but 

 sometimes a fleshy hump ; dewlap and muzzle large and square. 

 1 Sp. and type, Bos Domest : Nipalese varieties of. H. G. 

 N. B. — These Bovine characters are all ours. See Journal Asiatic Soc. 



71. Bibos Nobis. — Cranium large, massive, exhibiting preponderance 



of the frontal and cerebral portion over the facial ; frontals 

 as long as the face, concave, broader than long, and surmounted 

 by a large salient crest ascending above the highest bases of the 

 horns. Occipital plane of the scull spheroidal, very large, 

 larger than the frontal plane, deeply indented in its centre 

 by the temporal fossae, and forming an acute angle with 

 the frontal plane. Horns attached below the highest line of 

 the frontals, massive but short, ovoid or subtrigonal, and curving 

 ascendantly ; thirteen pairs of ribs ; a true dorsal ridge co-exten- 

 sive with the ribs and terminating abruptly ; dewlap and muzzle 

 small ; period of gestation longer than in Bos. 

 1 Sp. and type. Bibos Cavifrons : probably the Bos Gaurus of 

 authors. H. T. 



N. B. — Gavaeus, an aberrant species leading to Bos? Possibly the 5th type 

 of Bos Genus. 



72. Bison. — Cranium moderate, depressed, inclining to Bubaline forms in 

 the excess of the facial portion over the frontal, and in the 

 rounding off of the frontals into the occiput ; frontals decidedly 

 broader than long, more or less convex, and forming an obtuse 



