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256 Description of the Menagerie 
Length from the orbit to the anus, seven feet seven inches. © 
Height taken at the highest point of the back, five feet nine 
inches. 
Length of the head, one foot ten inches. 
Breadth, one foot four inches. 
Length from the extremity of the nostrils to the extremity of 
the eye, one foot. 
From the extremity of the eye to the root of the horns, five 
inches. 
Breadth of the horns taken at their base, four inches. 
Length of the neck to the shoulder-blade taken obliquely, one 
foot five-inches. 
Height from the hoof of the fore foot with the different cur- 
vatures to the most elevated part of the back, five feet nine 
inches. 
Space between the train behind and the train before, two feet 
eight inches. 
Height from the fore foot to the chest, two feet five inches. 
Height from the fore feet to the line of the body, two feet two 
inches. “4 ; 
Height from the hind feet measured to the line of the body, 
two feet seven inches. 
Length of the neck, one foot eight inches. 
Length of the tail, four feet. 
We may refer to the aurechs the descriptions and figures un- 
der mentioned. 
1. The species which Aristotle has described by the name of 
Lonasos. 
2. The species of oxen described by the Greeks by the names 
of monapos, monepus, and monops. 
3. The oxen described by Pliny, under the names of bonasus, 
bubalus, and Lison, as well as all those which the ancient Latin 
authors called by these names. We must not confound with 
the aurochs the species which some moderns have described by 
the name of dubalus, which is nothing but the buffalo. 
4, The urus of Julius Cesar and Virgil. 
5. The figures of Aldrovandus are so inaccurate that we can 
scarcely refer to the aurochs that which he gives of the wrus. 
As to Johnston, as he has adopted the opinion of certain Latin 
authors in distinguishing the two species of wild oxen, he has 
also given drawings of them. In plate xix. he has given the 
lonasos ; and in plate xx. the wrus. If these two figures were 
accurate, they would certainly indicate two very different ani- 
mals; but when we consider the little credit which Johnston de- 
serves, we Cannot refer to them with propriety. 
6. The 
