30 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



fyc. It inhabits the whole of the temperate 

 parts of South America. 



The Buffalo (Bos Bubalus, Lin.), Buff. XL xxv. 



Originally of India, and brought into Egypt, 

 Greece, and Italy during the middle ages, but 

 unknown to the ancients ; with the forehead 

 convex, more long than large, the horns directed 

 sideways, and marked in front with a longitu- 

 dinal ridge. It is a difficult animal to subdue; 

 it has great power, and prefers marshy places 

 and coarse plants, which the ox cannot live on. 

 Its milk is good ; its hide very strong, but its 

 flesh is little esteemed. 

 There is a race of them in India with the horns 



opening ten feet ; it is colled Ami in Hindustan, and 



is the Bos Arniof Shaw. 



The Yack (Bos Grunniens, Pall.), Buffalo with horse's 

 tail. Grunting Cow of Tartary, Schreb. ccxciv. A. B. 



Is a small species, with the tail entirely fur- 

 nished with long hairs, like that of the horse, 

 and with a long mane on the back ; its head 

 appears to resemble that of the Buffalo, but its 

 horns are not hitherto sufficiently described. 

 This animal, of which iElian has spoken, is origi- 

 nally of the mountains of Thibet. It is with 

 its tail that the standards still in use among 

 the Turks were first made, to distinguish the 

 superior officers. 



