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but short: this is not the case always if the races of our do- 
mestic oxen; for instance, in the varieties of the oxen of Hun- 
gary, and even of Romania, which have very long horns. 
The urus has a broad but short neck, and we do not sce that 
the skin ever forms numerous and pendeiit folds, as observed in 
the domestic ox, and in the greater number of the species of 
this genus. It is generally very hairy and covered with a thick 
mane, which always becomes thicker towands the lower part. 
It is this mane which has made this species be confounded by 
several naturalists with the bison of the new continent, which 
seems to have a mane still more abundant. 
The form of the body of the aurochs is generally thicker than 
that of the domestic oxen, and its body is also much more hairy, 
particularly in the fore parts and on the back. The hairs are 
generally very long and very thick. Finally, the aurochs has 
sourteen pair of ribs, while we observe but thirteen in all the 
other species of oxen, 
The legs of the wrus are short and thick, particularly the fore 
legs : ; they are also covered with long and numerous hairs; the 
feet are cloven and hairy, the hoofs are short, but strong and 
thick: as to the fetlocks, they are long and placed above the 
hoofs. From the direction of these fetlocks they almost touch the 
gromid: those of the fore feet are shorter and more square than 
those of the hind feet, which are longer, but also not so broad. 
The tail of the aurochs searcely reaches half down the thigh; 
but the hair which covers it touches the ground: it is tufted, and 
the hair is long and thick. 
The breast of the aurochs which we saw, was of a reddish 
brown, or of a dull fawn colour, and almost of one tint: the 
hair of the body, as well as the mane which covered the whole 
of the neck and part of the shoulders, had not that grayish 
tinge which Aristotle makes one of the characters of the lozasos. 
The hair of the wrus is not short and frizzled, but, on the con- 
trary, long and straight, and in the individual Just mentioned 
it is of a generally uniform colour. 
The aurachs presents, therefore, as its chief characters: 2 face 
very flat, the forehead slightly swoln, the horns placed below 
the line of the occiput, and the interorbitary arcade very salient : 
Lastly, a thick mane and fourteen pair of ribs. The characters 
presented by the occiput, of being arranged in a semicircle, and 
of forming an obtuse angle with the forehead, are also equally 
important, and may very clearly serve for the distinction of this 
species. 
The dimensions of the aurochs are as follow: 
Length following the curvature of the back, nine feet three 
inches. Length 
