Bos acuticornis, Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 48 (1893).
GWur/errS-Size apparently much the same as in the tamarau, but the
horns longer. Skull generally like that o f the tamarau,.but the horn-cores
more distinctly triangular in section, with their front outer angle brought
Fig. 27.—Skull and horn-cores of Falconer’s Tamarau. Restored from a specimen in the~
British Museum.
much more on to the frontal aspect of the skull, and the proper frontal surface
of the horn-cores consequently directed to a great extent upwards, instead
of almost immediately forwards. Horn-cores long, pointed, and directed
upwards and outwards, with the front outer angle firming a sub-spiral
curve arising at its base near the middle line o f the horn-cores, as seen
from the front.
The following are the dimensions o f the figured specimen :—
Width of skull beneath horn-cores . . 4 i inches
Length of horn-cores along greater curve . 27 „
Interval between tips . . ■ 33a »
Diameter of inner surface of base of horn-core . 3$ • „
Basal girth of horn-core . . • • 12 „
Interval between bases of horn-cores . . 2i „
Distribution.—Northern India during the Pliocene epoch.
INCERT2E S eDIS .
Anoa santeng, Dubois, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. vol. li. pt. 1, p. 96 (1 $91 ) »
Jentink, Notes Leyden Mas. vol. g | l p . 220 (1891).
Named on the evidence of an unfigured and insufficiently described
skull obtained from the superficial deposits of Java, and said by its
describer to indicate an animal allied to the anoa of Celebes, which
may still be living in the island. The evidence is considered insufficient
by Dr. Jentink.
II. T h e M usk-O x e n— G en | | O vibos
Ovibos, De Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 18 16 , p. 76 ; Gray, Cat.
Ungulata Brit. Mas. p. 42 (1852) ; Rutimeyer, Abhand. schweiz. pal. Ges.
vol. v. p. 103 (1878) ; P. Thomas, B u ll. Soc. Zool. France, 18 8 1, p. 25 ;
Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, 1895, p. 242 ; Matschie, SB. Ges. naturf.
Berlin, 1898, p. 30.
Bdotkerium, Leidy, Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, vol. vi. p. 7 1 (1851).
CharacteriseSize medium ; build stout and clumsy ; the neck short,
and the head carried only slightly above the level of the back ; no dewlap.
Extremity of muzzle moderately broad, and, except for a narrow strip on
the inner margins of the nostrils, and a triangular patch where these two