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sufficiently long and soft to be mistaken for a 

 Bison's. 



Sub-genus BUBALUS therefore includes Bos Caffer^ 

 or Cape Buffalo, but not B. pegasus, Ham. Smith, 

 Griffith's Cuvier; that species having characters 

 which refer it to the Gnoos. But Bo9 Bornouen- 

 sis* nobis, the Zamouze of Clapperton, with horns 

 only divided by a narrow ridge, on the frontals 

 exceedingly broad, rugged, solid, and black, not 

 turned down or sideways, but directly back and 

 upwards, the two forming a crescent, is a true Bu- 

 lalus ; it may be the same as 



B. corniculatus, Blyth, known by the pair of 

 horns only, which we formerly copied and took to 

 be of a semi-adult B. Coffer, but that judgment 

 may have been hasty. Africa contains likewise 

 B. brachyceros, Gray ? remarkable for its large 

 pendant ears, filled with long tufts of hair : in this 

 species the horns, in general, have the same form as 

 those of the Bornou buffalo, are considerably smaller, 

 and have a flexure downwards and again upwards. 

 In Eastern Asia and Europe, there are, we think, two 

 species ; B. Arnee and the common B. bubalus. 



Sub -genus BISON, distinguished from Bubalus, 

 whose frontals form a convex line between the 

 horns, by having that convexity lower and consider- 

 ably broader, while the horns are set on below the 

 crest and behind the frontal line. In this group 

 we reckon the Bos bison, or Bison antiquorum, Bos 

 Americanus^ Bos poephagus, or Yak of Tahtary; 

 and, probably, the Burmese Phain^ a small red spe- 



