288 ANIMALS OF THE 



last, he calls the Indian Antelope, the horns of 

 which are very small. 



To these may be added three or four varieties 

 more, which it is not easy to tell whether to refer 

 to the goat or the gazelle, as they equally resemble 

 both. The first of these is the Bubalus, an animal 

 that seems to partake of the mixed natures of the 

 cow, the goat, and the deer. It resembles the 

 stag in the size and the figure of its body, and 

 particularly in, the shape of its legs. But it has 

 permanent horns like the goat, and made en- 

 tirely like those of the gazelle kind. It also re- 

 sembles that animal in its way of living ; how- 

 ever, it differs in the make of its head,. being ex- 

 actly like the cow in the length of its muzzle, and 

 in the disposition of the bones of its skull, from 

 which similitude it has taken its name. This ani- 

 mal has a narrow long head ; the eyes are placed 

 very high ; the forehead short and narrow ; the 

 horns permanent, about a foot long, black, thick, 

 annulated, and the rings of the gazelle kind re- 

 markably large ; its shoulders are very high, and 

 it has a kind of bunch on them that terminates 

 at the neck ; the tail is about a foot long, and 

 tufted with hair at the extremity. The hair of 

 this animal is remarkable in being thicker at the 

 middle than at the root : in all other quadrupeds, 

 except the elk and this, the hair tapers off from 

 the bottom to the point ; but in these, each hair 

 seems to swell in the middle like a nine-pin. The 

 bubalus also resembles the elk in size, and the 

 colour of its skin ; but these are the only simili- 

 tudes between them : as the one has a very large 



