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bull and three cows, and turned the bison into the 

 great deer forest of Emanuel Segen. In 1885 this 

 herd consisted of six bulls, two cows and two calves. 



The following census of museum specimens of a 

 fast disappearing species may be valuable : 



i and 2. Adult bull and cow in the Natural History 

 Museum, South Kensington ; shot by Mr. St. G. 

 Littledale, and presented by him in 1892. Published 

 measurements : height of bull, 5 ft. 1 1 in. at the 

 withers and loft, i in. muzzle to root of tail. Colour 

 bright chestnut brown, perhaps due to fading. 

 From the Caucasus. 



3. Bull bison from Lithuania, presented by the 

 Czar to the British Museum in 1845. 



4. Cow in the Edinburgh Museum, stuffed, from 

 the Duke of Bedford's collection. 



5. Adult bull in the Leyden Museum, received 

 from the St. Petersburg Museum. 



6 and 7. Skins of two half-grown specimens now 

 in the Leyden Museum, received from the Rotterdam 

 Zoological Gardens in October, 1871. 



8. Skin of a young individual at Leyden, received 

 from the Zoological Gardens at Amsterdam, April, 

 1869. 



9. Skull of male bison from Lithuania in the 

 Royal College of Surgeons' Museum, presented by 

 Professor Otto in 1838. 



10. Bones of the trunk of a young bull in the Royal 

 College of Surgeons' Museum. This animal was 



