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animals, and the tail quite naked, excepting some distich- 

 ous hairs at the end. In younger beasts, a scattered brown 

 hair covers the neck, back, and belly; and in the young 

 heifer, the colour is brown-black, the hair more abundant, 

 and a sort of standing mane four inches long, spreads from 

 behind the horns, along the neck, down the spine to the tail, 

 darker than the rest of the hair, almost black. At that 

 age, the horns are only six inches long, thirteen inches 

 distant from tip to tip, pale in colour, originating at the 

 side of the frontal crest, and rising obliquely upwards, 

 with some slight indication of wrinkles, The forehead 

 and nuccha are covered with loose black hair, as also the 

 throat, dewlap, and top of the tail; the shin bones and 

 pasterns furnished with curling woolly dark hair. The 

 head is one foot long, and the length of the animal, from 

 nose to tail, five feet seven inches ; the tail one foot. At 

 that age, there is so great a dissimilarity from the adult, 

 as to give it the appearance of a different species, for 

 which, indeed, it was taken in the specimen of Mr. Bur- 

 chell, had not a note within the skin established the 

 species. 



There is some doubt whether Pliny alludes to this spe- 

 cies in his description of the fierce African wild oxen 

 which were caught in pit falls*: the Araho is truly a 

 terrible and ferocious beast, possessed of a tremendous 

 bellowing voice, and moving with considerable swiftness, 

 but so ponderous as to be disinclined to ascend ; its scent 

 is keen, but the breadth of the horns impede its sight. 

 This species of buffalo lives in families or small herds in 

 the brushwood and open -forests of Caffraria, occasionally 

 uniting in droves upon the plain. Old bulls are often met 



* He gives it blue eyes, and rufous hair. Chap. xxi. 1. viii., but 

 it seems confounded with a species of Bison. If Captain Clap- 

 perton's notice be referred to B. Caffer, it is found also in Borneo, 

 under the name of Zamouse, the Arabic Yamus. 



