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animal, and when frightened utters a bleat like that of the domestic 
Sheep. Both sexes possess horns, those of the female being smaller ; 
and indeed this sex is rudely figured in one of General Hardwicke’s 
drawings in the British Museum, as the ‘ Warry-a-too’ of the Cha- 
tagon Hills; besides which, this is probably the species indicated as 
the wild Sheep of Tenasserim of Capt. Low.” 
“JT shall now call your attention to some animals of North Africa, 
very good descriptions of many of which, obligingly furnished to me 
by Mr. Crowther (of the Queen’s 63rd regiment), I have easily re- 
cognised as referring to known species; but there are several which 
are certainly new to naturalists, and among them two very fine Bo- 
vine animals, which the Society would do well to write about to 
their correspondents in that quarter. As Mr. Crowther described to 
me the Bubalis and the White Oryx, which are often designated 
‘ wild cattle,’ it must not be supposed that those animals are alluded 
to, as indeed is clear enough from the somewhat elaborate descrip- 
tions, and from the roughly-drawn sketches of both animals, from 
memory, which I enclose to assist those descriptions. These sketches 
will, at any rate, give some idea of the sort of animal, and go far to 
prove their distinctness from any which we are acquainted with. 
“The ‘ Sherif al Wady’ (or River-chief) stands six feet and up- 
wards at its elevated withers. Gencral form Bisontine; the carcass 
somewhat narrow, with flakes or rolls of fat on the sides of the neck ; 
the limbs fine-boned and rather long, being terminated by compa- 
ratively small neat hoofs; the succentorial rather long; tail short, 
with its tuft of frizzled hair not reaching to the houghs. Head, it 
would seem, much like that of ordinary cattle, with small pointed ~ 
ears, generally borne pendent, and naked of hair internally and to- 
wards the tip, which are delicate pinkish flesh-colour; eyes small 
and dark; the horns thick, cylindrical, smooth till towards their 
base, where they are a little rugose, and directed almost vertically 
upwards from the sides of the forehead ; their colour dark, and length 
about a foot and a half. The character of the coat approaches that 
of Highland cattle in Britain, but is smoother toward the under 
parts, with curly hair on the forehead; some pendent hair (as shown 
in the drawing) from the site of the dew-lap (which latter is want- 
ing), of the dark colour of the body, and a long but scanty white 
tuft hanging from the prepuce, as in Fallow Deer. General colour 
blackish brown, with a white belly; the centre of the hump pale 
ash-colour, or even whitish, with radiating black hair surrounding — 
this, four or five inches long. The cow is smaller and of a redder 
colour. The individual described was brought with two others, 
another male and a female, from the central region of Mount Atlas, 
and was presented by the Emperor of Morocco, in the year 1834, to 
the late Sir Peter Schousboe, who gave it to Mr. Crowther, in whose 
possession it lived for four months at Tangiers, when it was shot. It 
became tolerably tame, and its voice was a booming low, though, 
when irritated, it would roar in a different tone. The flesh proved 
to be rather coarse-grained, but that stripped from the sides of the 
dorsal apophyses, or hump, was excellent, and had the flavour of 
tongue. The skin was attempted to be preserved, but was destroyed 
