Guide to the galleries of mammalia (mammalian, osteological, cetacean) in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History).
- British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the galleries of mammalia (mammalian, osteological, cetacean) in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The families contained in this large and important group are:— 1. The Bovidce (Cases 15 to 20), with simple, hollow, non-deci- duous horns, supported by a long conical process of the frontal bone of the skull. Their teeth are as a rule longer than those of the Cervidce, the ^^neck^^ of the molars being hidden beneath the bone; canine teeth are invariably absent. The Oxen are represented, in the centre of the Gallery, by skeletons of a Piedmontese Bull from Tuscany; of a Buffalo from Assam [Bos buhalus) ; of the South- and Central-African Buffaloes [Bos caffer and centralis), of the Gour and Gayal [Bos gaurus and frontalis), and of the European and American Bisons [Bos honasus and americanus), placed side by side for the sake of comparison. Besides these a skeleton of the Banteng [Bos sondaicus) and one of the Anoa [Anoa depressicornis), and numerous skulls and horns, are exhibited in Case 16. Of the Musk-Ox [Ovibos moschatus), male and female skeletons are placed in Case 16, and several separate skulls and horns both here and on the top of Case 11. Of the beautiful group of the Antelopes, the horns are exhibited along the tops of Cases 11 to 18, while of the skeletons the follow- ing deserve mention :— the Sable Antelope [Hippotragus niger) ; the Sing-Sing Ante- lope [Kobus defassus) ; the Leucoryx (Oryx leucoryx); the Saiga [Saiga tartarica); the Chamois [Bupicapra tragas)^ both male and female. the Kudu [Strepsiceros kudu), wdiich has proportionately the largest cervical vertebrae of all Mammals. the Eland [Oreas canna). (Recess between Cases 20 and 21.) Of the Sheep and Goats the mounted horns are placed on Cases 19 to 24, while within the Cases there are skulls and skeletons of several of the different forms, such as the Wild Goat [Capra cegagrus), the Common Sheep [Ovis aries), Marco Polo’s Sheep [Ovis poll), the Barbary Sheep [Ammotragus tragelaplius), Rocky- Mountain Goat [Haplocerus montanus), &c. 2. The family Antilocapridue is represented, in Case 19, Div. F, by a skeleton and several skulls of its only member—the Prong- horn [Antilocapra americana), showing that, although the horn is itself bifurcate, yet its core remains a simple upright process of bone. [Cases 16 to 19.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122574_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
