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ZOOLOGY. 



allied to the European bison, (Bison Europwus Owen), the- 

 "auroch,"' now preserved in the forests of Bialowicza, and 

 living wild in Caucasus. Bos primigenius Bojanus, which 



in the time of Caesar lived in Germany and England bear- 

 ing the name "urns," is the " ur" of the Nibelungen 

 song. From it has descended the half-wild cattle in certain 



