MAMMALIA. 23 



? Egyptian Zebu, Knight, Mm. Anim. Nat. f. 723, 724 ; Long, 



Egypt. Antiq. Brit. Mus. ii. 57. f. 169, lower figures. 

 Hab. Africa. West Africa; Salam; Whitfield. 



Skin in a bad state. Gambia. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Two skulls. Gambia. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



This animal agrees better than the Zebus with the figure of the 

 Humped Cattle on the ancient Egyptian tombs. Long's Egypt, 

 p. 57. f. 169. 



Mr. Whitfield brought a pair of these animals. The male 

 (now in the Zoological Gardens, 1850) is white, with a few brown 

 specks on the head ; the female yellow-brown, the head even 

 narrower than that of the male. Purchas describes them as 

 yellow. 



Hybrids with wild species. 



1. Between Bos Indicus and Bibos front alis. Blackish, fore-legs 



white, face and withers brown. 

 Gyale at Barracpore, Hardw. Icon. ined. Brit. Mus. n. 10,975. 



't. 169, 170, copied. 

 Jungly gau, Bos Sylhetanus, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. t. , $ 



2; H. Smith, Griffith, A. Kingd. iv. 406. 

 Domestic Gyal, Colebrook, Asiat. Research, viii. 511 ; Lesson, 



Compt. Buffon, x. 317- 

 Hab. India. 



2. Hybrid between a Yak bull and a Zebu cow. 



Tail elongate, bushy nearly to the base ; withers highly crested. 

 Black, with a white spot on withers ; in winter covered with long 

 silky hair, in summer with shorter hair, having a crest of long 

 hair on the dewlap, and a tuft of elongated hair on the upper 

 part of each leg. Muffle smooth. 



Hybrid Bull, Mitchell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 172. t. 15. 



This animal was imported as a Yak ; it was for some time at 

 the Gardens of the Zoological Society, but has been lately trans- 

 ferred to Knowsley. 



The travellers in Tibet state that half-bred Yak are common 

 as domestic cattle. 



2. BUBALUS. 



Horns depressed or subtrigonal at the base, inclining upwards 

 and backwards, conical, and bending upwards at the tip, on a 

 plane rather in front of the occipital ridge ; forehead rather 

 transverse, convex, shelving before and behind ; the intermaxil- 



