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Bos bubalus. —The Domestic Buffalo. 
Plate XXXIII. fig-. 5. 
Horns directed laterally, compressed, with a ridge in front, 
reclining towards the neck, and the points turned up; hair 
coarse, colour of a dark-brown or black ; mammae of the male 
placed in a transverse line; tail with a tuft at the end. Five 
feet six inches high at shoulders. Domesticated in India, 
Persia, Turkey, Italy, &c. 
Sub-Genus 2. — Bison. — Smith .—Forehead slightly arched, 
much broader than high ; horns placed before the salient line 
of the frontal crest, the plane of the occiput forming an obtuse 
angle with the forehead, and semicircular in shape; fourteen 
or fifteen pairs of ribs; the shoulders rather elevated; the tail 
shorter; the legs more slender ; tongue blue ; hair soft and 
woolly. 
Bos Americanus. —The American Bison. 
Plate XXXI IT. fig. 7. 
Hair woolly, brownish-black, very abundant on the head and 
shoulders; with a long beard ; short and close on the hind quar¬ 
ters ; head hanging ; neck short; forehead broad ; muzzle wide 
and white; horns small, distant, lateral, pointing backwards ; 
eyes round, dark, and full ; chest heavy; loins slender; tail 
short. Five feet high at shoulders, four feet at the croup. 
Inhabits interior of North America. 
Sub-Genus 3. —Taurus. —Forehead square from the orbits 
to the occipital crest; somewhat concave, and not arched as in 
the former ; horns rising from the sides of the salient ridge or 
crest of the frontal bone ; the plane of the occiput forming an 
acute angle with the frontal bone, and of a quadrangular form ; 
curve of the horns outwards, upwards, and forwards; no mane; 
a deep dewlap; thirteen pair of ribs ; tail long; udder with four 
teats in a square. 
