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forms. If the line of the occipital crest in the present specimen were perfect, 
the interval between this and the lower border of the base of the horn-cores would 
he far greater than in any other species. The intercornual portion of the occiput 
is depressed between the bases of the horn-cores in Buhalus platyceros, and raised 
above them in Buhalus ami. 
The greater separation of the plane of the true occiput from the plane of the 
parietals and the post-cornual portion of the f rentals in this species than in B. ami, 
is an approach to the Antelopine form of skull, and a wide departure from the high 
intercornual crest of Bos. 
The above comparisons show that this cranium has most points of resemblance 
to the crania of the genus Buhalus, and we are therefore justified in classing it 
with that genus ; the characteristic points of the cranium have been already noticed 
in the Eecords of the Geological Survey of India, ‘ 
Bubalus paljeindicus, Falconer. PI. 17, f. 2, and PL 19. 
Of this magnificent species of fossil buffalo no complete description of the 
cranium has ever appeared, though short notices of it will be found in Dr. Ealconer’s 
Catalogue of the Vertebrate Eossils in the collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 
and a figure and notes are given by Dr. Spilsbury in the Journal of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal.^ A figure of a very complete, though partially restored, cranium 
with the horn-cores attached will be found in Plate XXII of the “ Palaeontological 
Memoirs this figure is copied from Plate G of the unpublished plates of the “ Eauna 
Antiqua Sivalensis,” where other imperfeet crania are also figured. 
The Indian Museum possesses a cranium of tliis species, of which two views are 
given in the accompanying plates (XVII, fig. 2, and XIX), and which exceeds in 
size any other specimen which I have seen. The specimen is from the Nerbudda 
valley, and were it not for the loss of the greater part of the horn-cores it would 
be in a splendid state of preservation. 
The greater part of the right horn-core and almost the whole of the left horn- 
core are absent from the specimen figured ; the distal portion of the nasal bones, 
with a small part of the extremity of the maxiUae and the whole of the premaxillge 
are also wanting ; the right pterygoid and the pterygoid process of the same side have 
also been broken away. The crowns of the whole of the premolar series are broken 
off even with their alveoli ; the two last molars of the right side and the whole 
three of the left side are, however, quite complete. The bone is firm, although it 
adheres strongly to the tongue ; with the exception of the fronto-nasal sutures all the 
cranial sutures are completely obliterated ; the molars are also well worn, so that the 
skull belonged to a fully adult individual, which was in all probability a male. 
1 Vol. X, p. 131. 
2 Yols. Ill, VllI, IX, X, and XIIL 
