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liai'ities that are sunietiines very curiuus and amusing. 

 They hide their young, and feed in the night, basking 

 or sleeping during the day. They are fierce when 

 pressed, but generally speaking very timorous, 

 moving olf on the appearance of anyone, even at a 

 great distance ; "yet this varies very much in different 

 seasons of the year. . . . When they come 

 down into the lower part of the park, which they do 

 at stated hours, they move like a regiment of 

 cavalry in single file, the bulls leading the van, and 

 when they are in retreat the bulls bring up the 

 rear." 



The wild cattle of Chartley Park, Staffordshire, 

 were reduced in 1905 to eight aniiuals, which were 

 purchased by the Duke of Bedford, and removed to 

 his park at Woburn. 



The American '^ buffalo," which has become extinct 

 as a wild animal during the last fifty years, in 

 consequence of the making of the great railways 

 across the Continent, now survives only as a small 

 herd in the Yellowstone Park. This animal bears a 

 strong resemblance to the European bison {Bos 

 honasus), but is an inhabitant of open prairies, while 

 the buffalo of N.W. Canada, known as the Wood- 

 Bison (Bos athcqjnscw), atfects a wooded country. 



Sheep and Goats. 



The musk ox, which, with the Saiga antelope, 

 inhabited England in Pleistocene times, and is now 

 entirely Arctic, forms a connecting link, as its 

 scientific name [Ovihos moschatn^) imj^lies, between 

 oxen and sheep. We owe the first discovery of its 



