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THE OX TRIBE. 



THE ZAMOUSE, OR BUSH COW. 

 Bos Brackyceros. 



[The following extract, from the 'Annals of Nat. Hist./ 

 vol. ii, p. 284, is from the pen of Mr. J. E. Gray.] 



" Captain Clapperton and Colonel Denham, when they 

 returned from their expedition in Northern and Central 

 Africa, brought with them two heads of a species of Ox, 

 covered with their skins. These heads are the specimens 

 which are mentioned in Messrs. Children and Vigors' 

 accounts of the animals collected in the expedition, as 



