The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . hich 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,
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . hich 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 was tamed, and therebyin the course of time contributed to form some of the tameraces of cattle, it must have been the lesser large-growth, small-horned, and often hornless race, which is to be found in themountains of Norway, and which has a high protuberancebetween the setting-on of the horns above the nape. 3. Dwarf Ox {Bos longifrons, Owen), figs. 6 & Bos Char. The forehead flattened, with a prominent edge stand-ing up along the middle, and a smaller indenting backward;the horns round, small, and directed outwardly upwards, andbent in one direction forwards. Syn. Bos longifrons, Owens History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds,p. 508, fig. 211 (the forehead with horn-cores). are intermediate gradations in the convex rising of the occipital ridge andthe length of the pedicles of the horns, which affect the value of those cha-racters as specific distinctions between i\\e Bos longifrons and Bos specimen (fig. 5) would seem to indicate that the typical characters as-signed by the learned Scandinavian naturalist to his Bos frontosus were simi-lailv modified or departed from in the specimens discovered in Scania.—Ed. 353 Prof. NilssiOii on the extinct and existing Description.—As far as \vc yet know, this is the smallest ofall the Ox
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