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{B. — The Taurine group.) 
Genus Zebus, Blyth. 
(The humped cattle of tropical Asia and Africa.) 
503. Z. GIBBOSUS ; B. gihhosus, C. H. Smith. 
Syn. B. indicuSf L. 
Hab. Probably Africa aboriginally, and the do- 
mestic animal early introduced into Asia, vide 
J. A. S. XXIX, 285 : unknown in the abori- 
ginally wild state ; but constituting, at the 
present epoch, the ordinary domestic cattle of 
the inter — and juxta-tropical regions of the 
major continent ; feralherds existing in many 
parts of India, in Ceylon, and it would seem 
also in parts of Africa. 
A. B. Skulls of bull and cow of common 
Bengali race ; procured in Calcutta by the 
Curator, in 1859. C. Skeleton of Gyna, or 
dwarf bullock. Presented by the Curator in 
1848. D. E. Skulls {minus lower jaw) of 
large up-country oxen. F. Bezoar, divided. 
Presented by R. Home, Esq., in 1816 {As. 
Res. XII, App. XXIII). G. The half of a 
bezoar, taken from the stomach of a Beno-ali 
bull that had swallowed a native blanket 
(J. A. S. XXy, 445). 
Genus Bos, L. (as restricted.) 
504. B. TAURUS, L. 
Syn. B. scoticus, Swainson. (The feral Chilling- 
ham cattle.) 
Hab. Europe ; W. and N. Asia ; N. and S. Africa 
(mostly replaced by the humped cattle to- 
wards and within the tropics) ; vide J. A. S, 
XXIX, 287 ; Butan ; Socotra. Introduced into 
N. and S. America, Australia, Polynesia, &c. 
(N. B. — Various primasval races would appear to have con- 
tributed to the formation of the domestic Bos Taurus ; as 
the Ibssil and semi-fossil B. primogenius, perhaps B. 
TROCHOCEROS, and certainly the B. erontosus and the B. 
LONGiFRONS of the European later deposits.) 
