THE BUFFALO, See, i6j 



inferted, that the reader may have an opportuni- 

 ty of comparing them. Profper Alpinus *, who 

 defcribes this animal, and gives a figure of it ? 

 fays that it is found in Egypt. His defcription 

 agrees with mine, and alfo with Belon's. The 

 only differences between the three are in the co- 

 lour of the horns and hair. The zebu of Belon 

 was yellow on the belly, brown on the back, 

 and had black horns. That of Profper Alpinus 

 was red, marked with fmall fpots, with horns of 

 the ordinary colour. Ours was of a pale yel- 

 low, almoft black on the back, with horns of 

 the fame colour as thofe of a common ox. In 

 the figures of Belon and Profper Alpinus, the 

 bunch on the back is not fufHciently marked. 

 The oppofite error takes place in the figure 

 which Mr Edwards f has lately given of this 

 animal, from a drawing communicated to him 

 by Sir Hans Sloane ; for the bunch is too large 

 Befides, the figure is incomplete ; for it feems to 

 have been drawn from a very young animal^ 

 whole horns were only beginning to fhoot. It 

 came, fays Mr Edwards, from the Earl Indies, 

 where thefe fmall oxen are ufed as we do horfes.< 

 From all thefe hints, and likewife from the va- 

 rieties in the colour, and the natural mildnefs of 

 this animal, it is apparent, that it belongs to the 

 bunched race of oxen,, and has derived its origin 

 from a domeltic ftate, in which the fmalleft in- 



dividual* 



* Profp. Alpin. Hift. Nat. Egypt, p.- 233. 

 f Nat. Hift. of Birds, p. 2O0. 



