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since we have here, on the same spot, the bones of lost animals, as 
well as of animals similar with those which are now in existence, in 
the same country in which these fossils are found. 
M. Faujas, on comparing the different large fossil heads of the ox 
kind, in the Museum of Natural History, was surprised to find that 
they differed, not only in their size and form, but in other characters 
also, from the urus, or aurochs, of Lithuania. By the examinations 
which he made, he also became convinced that these fossil horns were 
of two distinct species. 
The core or bones of the horns of the first species are placed in a 
horizontal position, and at rather more than fifteen inches from their 
base are fractured ; but the size and form of the remaining part show , 
that, if there had been any curve, it must have been at the extremity. 
Although the animal must have been young, the bones of the horns, 
at their base, were more than twelve inches and a half in circumfer- 
ence ; and the distance from one orbit to the other, more than thirteen 
inches. The distance from the upper extremity of the forehead to the 
edge of the occipital foramen is little more than four inches and a 
half ; and on the forehead, between the commencement of the two 
horns, is a slight protuberance of an oval form. These two last cir- 
cumstances M. Faujas considers as particularly distinguishing this 
from the other species. 
In the second species the forehead, which is quite flat, is to be con- 
sidered, at its upper extremity, rather as forming a line, with a little 
convexity, towards its centre, than as having a protuberance. The 
horns form a kind of crescent, the inclination of which is downwards. 
The distance of one horn from the other, taken at their extremities, 
is two feet six inches and a half ; the circumference of the core of 
the horn, at its base, thirteen inches ; and from the upper edge of the 
forehead to the edge of the occipital foramen, but four inches. 
These horns he considers as having been brought from India by 
the same revolution which has removed those remains of elephants 
