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sufficiently long and soft to be mistaken for a J 

 Bison's. 



Sub-genus BUBALUS tberefore includes Bos Coffer \ \ 

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

 Griffith's Cuvier; that species having characters 

 which refer it to the Gnoos. But BOB 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 j 

 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 ; Z?. 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- 



