THE COW OF TARTARY. 225 



ctm inclined to believe, that this animal, fo much 

 celebrated for its ferocity, is really a much lar- 

 ger fpecies than our bear. 



II. 

 The COW of TARTAR Y. ♦. 



M. Gmelin, in the New Memoirs of the 

 Academy of Peterfburg, has given a defcription 

 of a Tartarian cow, which, at lirft fight, appears 

 to differ from all thofe we have enuineriited un- 

 der the article buffalo. ' This cow, ' fiys he, 



* which I faw alive, and had a drawing made ot 



* it in Siberia, came from Calmuck. It was 

 ' about two and a half RuiTian ells in length. 



Vol. VIII. P ' By 



* Grunting ox, with a mane on the neck ; whole body co- 

 vered with long hair, reaching almolt to the ground ; back 

 hunched ; tail lika that of a horfe, covered with full wnite 

 and Ion-,'; hairs, ftrikes with its head like a goat ; is very un- 

 ruly ; found in the country of the Calmucks ; Pennant's Synofif. 

 nf quad. p. 5- 



Vacca grunniens, villofa, cauda equina, Sarluk; Nov. Com. 

 Pctrop. torn. 9. p. 339. Rubruquis voj. Harris's coll. vol. I. 



^ 57'- 



Eos grunniens, cornibus teretibus, extrorfum curvatis, vel- 

 lere propendente, cauda undique jubata ; Lim. S^H- Nut. 

 p. 99. 



-Le boeuf velu ; Le Br tin. Voy. Mofcov. torn, \. p. 120. 



Bubul; BdCs Tr.iv. vol. i. p. 224. 



