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Historic (vide my remarks at pp. 249-50, ‘ Zool.,’ 1885), but the under- 
mentioned specimens, some of which — such as the Kegworth example — appear 
to have been associated with Bison priscus, and, at the Eraunstone Gate Flood 
Works and at Barrow-on-Soar, with Bos longifrons, lead me now to believe 
that, taking their condition also into account, a greater antiquity may be 
accorded them. — IMolar found in Oakwell Wood, Birstall (N.D.). Meta-tarsal 
and first and second phalanges found at Mountsorrel (X.D.), formerly labelled 
as those of a Stag. Astragalus from alluvium, near Kegworth (1870?), pre- 
sented by Mr. H. Bice; formerly labelled “Meta-tarsus of a Deer.” Eight 
ramus found at the Fosse Eoad, in 1875, nearly perfect. Teeth (various) 
from Flood Works, Braunstone Gate, 1885, and a nearly perfect skull without 
lower jaw; presented, on 23rd May, 1887, by Mr. John Dove Harris. IMolar 
from Belgrave Eoad gravel-pit, 3rd June, 1886, presented by Mr. G. H. 
Nevinson, and interesting as being probably of the same age as Ehinoceros teeth, 
with which they appear to have been found. Portion of right face with the six 
upper molars intact, from Barrow-on-Soar, July, 1886. Upper molar found at 
Flood Works, “Twelve Bridges,” said to be from a depth of 12ft. in blue 
clay, IMay, 1887. A right meta-carpus, very dense, and apparently semi- 
fossilised, found in gravel during excavations for Gas Works at Loughborough, 
in the spring of 1888, which I was enabled to examine and refer, by the 
courtesy of Mr. J. B. Ball, C.E. All these except the last are in the Museum. 
SuB-oEDEK A II TI ODA CT YLA . 
Division PEC OR A. 
Family B 0 V I D A] . 
BISOX. Bison prisms, Bojanus. 
“ Great Fossil Aurochs.” 
Of Mid-Pleistocene age, not extending into the Pre-Historic. I was first 
enabled to add this to the fossil fauna of the county by finding a tooth — a 
third molar — in the Abbey Meadow, on 16th July, 1881. Since then I have 
searched the Museum collections, and, by the kind aid of Professor W. Boyd 
Dawkins, M.A., F.E.S., F.G.S., and Mr. A. S. Woodward, F.G.S., I find that the 
following, formerly credited to Bos priniigenius, belong to the present species (B. 
priscus ) : — Back part of skull, viz., occipital condyles and basi-sphenoid (errone- 
ously marked in the ‘ Eeport Lit. and Phil. Society,’ 1854, p. 18, as “Atlas- 
bone”), and two horn-cores, all found in the Abbey Meadow, 14 ft. deep, and 
presented by the Lit. and Phil. Society, 28th Jan., 1854. A very large 
horn-core, discovered in Archdeacon Lane at a depth of 18 ft., and presented 
