89—2 CRANIA OR RUMINANTS PROM THE INDIAN TERTIARIES. 
the “ Pauna Antiqua Sivalensis ” {Plate A, sheet 10) ; of this figure I have obtained 
a copy by the courtesy of the British Museum authorities, and find that it corre- 
sponds in character with a cranium of Bison in the Indian Museum collected by Mr. 
Theobald, and which I have accordingly referred to this species. Of Amphibos elatus 
and Amphibos antilopinus I cannot find any descriptions or figures, and the names 
must therefore be abandoned. Of Bos occipitalis we have likewise no certain means 
of identification ; Dr. Murchison, the editor of the “ Palaeontological Memoirs,” has, 
however, suggested in a marginal note {Vol. 1, p. 281) that this name may refer to 
a cranium of a Bovine Ruminant contained in the Siwahk collection of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal, which was shortly described by Palconer in the Catalogue of the 
Collection, but to which, he, at that time at least, applied no specific name. Whether 
this name could have been applied to the specimen in question depends in a great 
measure on the respective dates of the manuscript note in which the name occurs 
and of the Museum Catalogue : the date of the latter is 1859 ; if the note were 
written previously to that date, it is quite clear that the name did not apply to the 
specimen, or it would have appeared in the Catalogue. As I have no means of 
judging on this question, I have thought it would prevent confusion to follow 
Dr. Murchison and to continue to apply the specific name to the cranium in 
question; the generic name I have, however, changed to Beribos, as the species 
cannot be referred to the restricted genus Bos. 
Besides the Bovidce, Palconer indicated the existence of three species of 
Siwalik Antelopes ; two of these species, viz., Antilope gyricornis and Antilope picta, 
are known only by manuscript names and must consequently be abandoned ; the 
cranium of the third species. Antilope palceindica, is, however, figured in the 
“ Palaeontological Memoirs ” ( Vol. 1, pi. 23), and the species may consequently 
stand. 
The peculiar form, Kemibos triquetriceros, seems to have been a small Bovoid 
animal, forming a connecting link between the Oxen and the Goats. Amphibos 
acnticornis, on the other hand, in the form of its horn-cores, connected the Oxen and 
the Antelopes ; it was perhaps allied to the Bovoid Anoa depressicornis of the 
Island of Celebes. 
Of the true Bovidce there are at the present day seven well-marked species 
inhabiting South-eastern Asia ; these are, Bubalus arni inhabiting the Sal forests 
of Assam, the Nepal Terai, parts of upper Bengal, the Sunderbans, and the high- 
lands of Central India ; Bibos gaurus inhabiting the eastern Sub-Himalayas, the 
Nerbudda valley and adjoining hills, and parts of Burma; Bibos frontalis inhabiting 
the hilly districts to the eastward of the Brahmaputra ; Bibos banting inhabiting 
Burma and Pegu ; the domesticated Bos indicus of the plains ; Bos chinensis, partly 
domesticated over a great part of China ; and lastly. Bison (BoephagusJ grunniens 
of Tibet. 
There is no true taurine ox at the present time living anywhere in Asia, the 
aberrant Bos indicus being the only representative in India of the genus Bos as 
