404 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Here we have an early instance of a white animal preserved in a 
park. The question may also be raised, were the “bubali” we 
read of in our early chronicles not antelopes?? Whitaker, for 
example, states that an entry in the records shows when the 
*bubali or wild cattle” were removed from Blakely to Gisburne 
Park. On what grounds is “bubali” accepted as standing for 
“wild cattle?” In translations from the classics it is generally 
taken to mean buffaloes.? Turning again to the two versions of 
the Bible, we find the following :— 
Authorised. 
(a) ‘‘he hath as it were the 
strength of an unicorn.” —Nwm. 
Xxili. 22. : 
(6b) “his horns are like the 
horns of unicorns.” — Deut. 
Xxxili. 17. 
(c) ‘* Will the unicorn be will- 
ing to serve thee, or abide by thy 
crib? 
Canst thou bind the unicorn 
with his band in the furrow? or 
will he harrow the valleys after 
thee ?”—Job xxxix. 9-10. 
(d) “And the unicorn shall 
come down with them, and the 
bullocks with the bulls.”—Jsa. 
eee 7h 
Revised. 
(a) ‘‘He hath as it were the 
strength? of the wild-ox.4*— 
Num. xxiii. 22. 
(b) ‘And his horns are the 
horns of the wild-ox.”—Deut. 
xxxili. 17. 
(c) ** Will the wild-ox be con- 
tent to serve thee? Or will he 
abide by thy crib? 
Canst thou bind the wild-ox 
with his band in the furrow? 
Or will he harrow the valleys 
after thee?”—Job xxxix. 9-10. 
(d) ‘* And the wild-oxen shall 
come down with them, and the 
bullocks with the bulls.”—Jsa. 
XXXIV. 7. 



1 Kitto, Physical History of Palestine (p. ecexciii.), writes :— 
** The Oryx [Footnote—Abu Harb, Antelope leucoryx] and Addax are not 
natives of Syria, or even of Egypt, at present, although the former at least 
was certainly found there in ancient times. It was a conspicuous object of 
the chase. It was one of the animals tamed by the Egyptians and 
kept in great numbers in the preserves of their villas. We are induced to 
notice it in this place from the fact that this is the most celebrated of all 
the genus, being that which appears to have given rise to the famous 
unicorn of the ancients, and to which there are so many references in 
Scripture.” 
Also [p. eccc., footnote] ‘* The Wild Cow, beker e/ wahesh, feeds on the 
herbs: in the desert of the district of Djof, fifteen days’ journey from 
Damascus.” —Burckhardt. 
2 Some Latin dictionaries state that Bubalus is “a buff or wild ox, 
a buffle or bugle.—Mart., 1. 23”; or ‘‘a wild ox, a buffalo.—Plin., 8. 15.” 
3 Or ‘‘ horns.” 4Or ‘‘ ox-antelope” (Heb. Reém). 
