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MAMMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
by the Lit. and Phil. 8oc. on 11th iUarch, 1854. This has about one-third 
of its length broken, and measures in circumference, just above burr, nearly 
14 in., and, at 7 in. above that point, nearly 11 in. Astragalus and first 
phalanx found at Kegworth in alluvium (1870?). Formerly labelled “Metatarsus 
of a Deer.” Presented by IMr. H. Eice. 
UEUS. Bos primigenitis (Bojanus). 
“ Great Fossil Ox.” 
Of Early Pleistocene age, but became extinct in Britain before the end of 
the Pre-Historic Period. The INIuseum possesses : — Two lower molars (formerly 
mixed up with Ehinoceros teeth, and, therefore, probably from Belgrave). A 
left radius and ulna (formerly labelled Elephant), found between 20 and 30 ft. 
below the surface, in the gravel, within a few yards of West Langton, in 
1857, and presented by INIr. Wm. Collins, 3rd July, 1858. Portions of shafts 
of right and left humerus, both marked “ Abbey jMeadow ” (N.D., probably 
1880). A fine skull with horn-cores, from the Abbey Meadow, 1880, measur- 
ing, from tip to tip, 2 ft. 5J in. ; greatest width (within 6 in. of tip), 2 ft. 8 in.; 
from burr to burr, 9 in. ; outside curve of horn, 2 ft. 5 in.; inside curve, 2 ft. ; 
circumference of burr, 144 in., midway, 10 in.; from orbit to orbit, 11^ in. 
A fine left meta-carpus, very much larger than that of existing cattle, 
discovered in gravel at Willow Bridge, Sept., 1881, and kindly presented by 
Mr. J. Hay. Its length is 9 inches ; circumference at distal end, 9 j ; diameter, 3^; 
circumference at proximal end, 8J ; diameter, 3^ ; circumference in centre, 6j. 
EXTINCT LONG-FACED, or LONG-FEONTED, OX. Bos longifrons (Owen). 
Keltic “ Short-horn.” 
A new-comer in the Pre-Historic Period (probably introduced by Neolithic 
Man), extending into late Eoman times, and supposed to be the progenitor of 
our present small Short-horn cattle. — It is exceedingly difficult in a town, such 
as Leicester, inhabited by Man from a period long anterior to the Eoman 
occupation, to draw the line between bones of the Oxen of Historic and those 
of Pre-Historic times ; but the following specimens may be credited to the 
latter Period. — Lower molar, found in Jewry-wall Street (N.D.). Distal end 
of right humerus, found 16 ft. deep, in Church-gate. Presented to the Museum 
by Mr; W. Pick on 19th July, 1853. Portion of shaft of left femur, and portion 
of shaft of right radius (both of young animal), found 15 ft. deep in lias (?), at 
Thurnby, IMay, 1881. Presented by IMr. James Eemington. 
PTontlet, found at the side of the Wreake, Syston, 16 or 17 ft. deep, in 
bluish clay, June, 1873, associated with fragment of human skull and bronze 
dagger (see ‘ Transactions Lit. and Phil. Soc.,’ Oct., 1888, pp. 25-26, with plan). 
A nearly perfect skull, with horn-cores, measuring from tip to tip (but one 
