the ox. 



The Common Buffalo has 

 been long domesticated in 

 India, where its services as 

 a beast of draught and bur- 

 den render it extremely 

 valuable. It differs materi- 

 ally in its general aspect 

 from the common domestic 

 Ox, being a heavier and 

 clumsier, as well as a more 

 powerful animal. Its mas- 

 sive body js supported on 

 short, thick, solid limbs ; the 

 hide is coarse and dense, and 

 covered sparingly with black, 

 wiry hair. The horns lie 

 back, taping up sideways, 

 and often crow to a large 

 size. In its native regions 

 the Buffalo is a formidable 

 animal, and capable of con- 

 tending: with the tiger, which 

 it often foils in the deadly 

 strife. When excited, the 

 beast rushes desperately on 

 its foe, strikes him down with its horns or forehead, kneels upon him, crashing in his chest, and then 

 tramples and gores the lifeless bodv. _ . . _,. ,. ,, 



The European Bison is an inhabitant of the great forest of Bialowizza, in Lithuania, thickets near tne 

 Bwampy banks of rivers are its favorite places of resort. Its strength is said to be enormous, and trees 

 of five or six inches in diameter cannot withstand the thrusts of old bulls. It is afraid neither of a wolf 

 nor of a bear, and assails its enemies both with its hoofs and its horns. An old Bison is a match tor tour 

 ' wolves. Packs of the latter animal, how- 



ever, sometimes hunt down even old bulls 

 JKBI-v .-g^S&^^sr-^K when alone, but a herd of Bisons has 



nothing to fear from any rapacious animal. 



European Hison attacked by Wolves. 



(119) 



A Buffalo. 



