European Bison 117 



of either a domesticated ox or a gaur, and, of course, still more from that 

 of a buffalo. 



A figure of the European bison, taken mainly from a mounted 

 Caucasian bull in the British Museum, is given in plate v. of Ifl/J Ow/;, 

 S/hYp, and Goats, but the artist has not succeeded in making a good like- 

 ness of the animal, the fore-legs being too short, and the contour of the 

 head and neck by no means satisfactory. The colour also is of too bright 

 a brown, but this can scarcely be laid to the fault of the artist, as the hair 



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Fig. 26. — Bull and Cow European Bison trom Lithuania at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph 



by the Duchess of Bedford. 



of all the specimens in the Museum has turned a foxy hue. The accom- 

 panying photogravure of a living bull and cow from Lithuania at Woburn 

 Abbey gives the correct form of the animal ; but the bull, either owing 

 to immaturity or the season of the year at which the photograph was 

 taken, does not show the lull development of the mane on the fore- 

 quarters, which is better displayed in the figure on page 119. 



Reaching to a height of 6 feet i or 2 inches at the shoulder, the bull 

 European bison stands fairly high on the legs, and has well-developed 

 hind-quarters which do not fall away in the manner so characteristic of its 

 American cousin. The withers, too, do not form the enormous hump 



