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mountaiiTcovv), to be this, or any other species 

 of the ox. Tlie Tolifatulmuminhi, and Makhzemtl- 

 adviych, two celebrated treatises by Persian phy- 

 sicians, concur in describing the three varieties 

 of Gaucohi, also named Gauzen, or Gdzcn^ and 

 in Arabic, lyyat, or UyyaL as three sorts of deer : 

 and the last mentioned work declares it to be 

 the same with the Hindi Bdrehsingha, or Cerviis 

 Elaplius. • 



I take this opportunity, while treating of a 

 species of ox, to notice an error which crept 

 into Kerr's unfinished translation of the animal 

 kingdom in Linn.eus's Systema Naturae; and 

 which has been followed by Doctor Turtox in 

 translating the general system of nature by 

 Lin'n.t;us. jMr. Kerr described and figured, 

 under the name of Bos Arnee, an animal, which, 

 notwithstanding the exaggerated description, 

 given on the authority of ' a British officer, who 

 met with one in the woods, in the country above 

 Ben^rd*y is evidently nothing else but the wild 

 buffalo, an animal very common throughout 

 Bengal, and known there, and in the neigh- 

 bouring-provinces of Hindostan, by the name of 

 Ai^na. Though neither fourteen feet high, as 

 Mr. Kerr has stated, or rather as the officer, on 

 whose information he relied, had affirmed; nor 

 even eight feet, as Doctor Turton, following 

 Kerr's inference from a drawing, asserts; yet it 

 is a large and very formidable animal, conspi- 

 cuous for its strength, courage, and ferocity. 

 It may not be true, that the buftaloes of Asia 

 znd Europe constitute a single species ; but, cer- 

 tainlv, the wild and tame buffaloes of India do 



Kerr, page 335. 



