The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . An old Bull (?) from Djurmoss near Saxtorp in Scania. in. lin. A young specimenfrom a turf-bog inthe district of Skyttain southern Scania,in. lin. A rather youngone in the Bri-tish Museum. Length of frontal bones 12 4 Length of orbits 3 0 Length between horn-crown and orbits 5 2 4 2 4 4 Breadth between horn-crown above 8 0 6 2 0 2 Between horn-crown 10 0 7 5 8 0 Breadth of foreheads smallest part 7 6 7 1 7 0 Breadth between the upper edges of the orbits 10 4 S3 0 9 Breadth in the centre above the orbits 8 5 6 5
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . An old Bull (?) from Djurmoss near Saxtorp in Scania. in. lin. A young specimenfrom a turf-bog inthe district of Skyttain southern Scania,in. lin. A rather youngone in the Bri-tish Museum. Length of frontal bones 12 4 Length of orbits 3 0 Length between horn-crown and orbits 5 2 4 2 4 4 Breadth between horn-crown above 8 0 6 2 0 2 Between horn-crown 10 0 7 5 8 0 Breadth of foreheads smallest part 7 6 7 1 7 0 Breadth between the upper edges of the orbits 10 4 S3 0 9 Breadth in the centre above the orbits 8 5 6 5 Thecircumferenceof the horn-core near the roots 8 6 6 6 The size of these skulls denotes a species of Ox, which, althoughmuch less than the Bosj)ri- migenius, is yet consider-ably larger than the Boslongifrons. It seems to havebeen about the size of ourcommon cow; from which,however, in form it totallydiffers. In the museumhere are to be seen someloose bones which seem tohave belonged to this spe-cies. They are found in Fi£. Bos frontosus. turf-bogs under the Jaravall in southern Scania, and in such a * In the series of remains of the skull and horn-cores of the Bos longifronspreserved in the British Museum and that of the College of Surgeons, there Bovine Animals of Scandinavia. 351 state as plainly shows they belonged to a more ancient periodthan that in which tame cattle existed in this country. Abode.—This species has lived in Scania contemporaneouslywith the Bos primigenius and Bison europaus; that it has alsooften been found in England^ the above-mentioned cranium willshow, which is preserved in the British Museum. As with us,it belongs to the countrys oldest postpliocene fauna: it, likethe before-mentioned Ox species, together with the Reindeer,Wild-boar and others, came from Germany during that periodwhen the two countries were joined together. It must, there-fore, also be found in a fossil state in Germany, although as yetit has nowhere been observed. If it ever wa
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