»66 THE BUFF A LO, &c. 



It corrcfponds very well with the figure and de- 

 Jcription * given by Belon, which I have alfo 



inferted, 



muzzle to the eye meafured ten inches. The eyes were diftant 

 from each other about fix inches ; and from their pofterior 

 angle, to the aperture of the ears, meafured four inches. The 

 ears were iituated behind and a little to one fide the horns, 

 and were near feven inches long, and nine inches in circum- 

 ference at the bafe. The diftance between the horns was 

 little more than four inches ; they were one foot two inches 

 in length, fix inches in circumference at the bafe, and, at half 

 an inch from the points, only an inch and a half. They were 

 of the ordinary colour of horn, and black near the extremi- 

 ties, which were dillant from each other one foot feven inches. 

 The bunch, which confifted entirely of flefli, was feven inches 

 in perpendicular height. The colour of the hair which co- 

 vered it was blackifh, and an inch and a half long. The tail, 

 to the end of the vertebrae, was little more than two feet 

 long ; but, including the hair, which hangs down to the 

 ground, it was two feet ten inches and a half. The longeft 

 hairs of the tail meafured one foot three inches. The tef- 

 ticles were a foot and a half diftant from the anus. It had 

 four paps, fituated like thofe of the bull. 



* This is a very fmall bull ; it is thick, fat, fmooth, and 

 well fhaped .... It was already old, though its body was 

 not fo large as that of a ftag; but it was more fquat, and 

 thicker than a roebuck, and fo neat and compact in all its 



members, that it was extremely agreeable to behold 



Its feet refembled thofe of the ox ; and its legs were fhort and 

 fquat. Its neck is thick and fhort, and the dewlap very 

 fmall. It has the head of an ox ; -and the horns rife from a 

 bone on the top of the head. They are black, much notched, 

 like thofe of the Gazelle, or Barbary antilope, and formed 

 like a crefcent. ... It has the- ears of a cow; its fhoulders 

 are plump, and a little elevated ; its tail is long, and covered 

 with bl Lck hair. It has the appearance of *n ox, only it is 

 not fo tall. . . We have here given a figure of it. — Belon 

 adds, that this fmall ox was brought to Cairo from Azamia, 

 a province o£ Afia, arid that it is alfo found in Africa; Obf- 

 di Belon, foL 118. 



