. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. A. Rhiniirium of yak {Foephayus fjrunniens) from the front. X ^. Tlie same from the side. The same of zebu {Bos indicus). X 5. be attributed in a great measure the prevalent admission ofsubgeneric rank to the groups into which the existing speciesof Boviuje fall. The ears are no less variable in size andshape than the skull and horns, even in closely relatedbreeds. 454 Mf. K. T. Pocock on some Gcuus Binos, Hodgson. Jiihos, lIol?son, Joiirii. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vi. p. 499 (1837) : type, f/iiitnis. II.
. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. A. Rhiniirium of yak {Foephayus fjrunniens) from the front. X ^. Tlie same from the side. The same of zebu {Bos indicus). X 5. be attributed in a great measure the prevalent admission ofsubgeneric rank to the groups into which the existing speciesof Boviuje fall. The ears are no less variable in size andshape than the skull and horns, even in closely relatedbreeds. 454 Mf. K. T. Pocock on some Gcuus Binos, Hodgson. Jiihos, lIol?son, Joiirii. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vi. p. 499 (1837) : type, f/iiitnis. II. *, llnijrsoii, op. cif. xvi. p. 70(5 (1847): t\\)(^, frontahx.(rnurhin. Tri/)o-<, Ih/mlihos, lleiide, Mc^m. Hist. S^at. Cliin. v. pt. i. p. 3 (UH)l) : types (now selected) respectively laosiensis, plafycerus, annamificiis, Heude. Tlie rhinarntm of tlie two forms I have examinpfl—namely,fronfalis, wliioli is almost certainly a domesticated breed ofB. gaurus, and hanttiuj—Iocs not diller in any important Fig. A. End of penis of African buffalo {Syncerus caffer cequinoctiaUs?) from the left side. B. The game of zebu (Bos indicus). C. The same from below. D. The same of bantenj? (Bibos hanteyig) from left The same of gnyal {Bijos frontalig) from below. F. The same of American bison {Bison bison) from the side. G. The same from below. respects from that of Bos, although the dorsal surface seemsto be less overgrown with hair than even in B. indicus. Tliehair encroaches only to a slight extent between the posteriorangles of the nostrils, so that the posterior border of theupper side is lightly concave. This feature may, however,])rove to be variable. In the feet the interungual integumentis naked as in Bos, not hairy as in Bison. The penis (fig. 4, D, E) in both the above-mentionedspecies differs from that of Bos in that the urethral canal is I External Characters of Ruminant ArtioddCtylo. 455 produced into a sliort tube free from the terminal cnsldon-like thicken
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