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Domestic Ox, required to be ringed for many generations 

 before it became tractable. 



A small variety noticed by Mr. Pennant was brought 

 from the Indian Islands. It was not larger than a runt, 

 with a nearly naked skin, the hair being bristly and rather 

 long on the neck and shoulders, and the rump and thighs 

 quite bare, with a few dusky stripes. The horns com- 

 pressed sideways, taper and sharp at the points ; the inside 

 and tips of the ears, and the lips, white. 



Comparing our series of drawings taken from living 

 specimens of the Hungarian, Italian, Indian, and dwarf 

 varieties, no doubt remains of their identity ; but the same 

 certainty does not attach to those described as Arnees with 

 the lunated horns, though of that race the domestic breeds 

 of China, furthest India, and the Archipelago, are mostly 

 composed. 



The Bisontine Group. 



If the elevated ridge of the spine on the shoulders, long 

 legs, a woolly fur, and the residence in mountain forests, 

 approach the Bisons nearer the Damaline and Catoblepine 

 genera than the Buffaloes, this group should take place of 

 them and be the first of the genus Bos. In this group are 

 found indications of an ancient and colossal species existing 

 at one time in Europe and Northern Asia, and even in 

 America, attested by the repeated discovery of enormous 

 skulls in the diluvian strata of the earth, on the vegetable 

 mould, and even beneath them, among the remains of the 

 Mastadon and Rhinoceros. But there seem to be fossil 

 remains of two different epochs; the first or deepest 

 belonging to the colossal, and the second perhaps to the 

 existing Aurochs, or, to speak more correctly, Bison. In 

 order to establish this group upon a clear foundation, and 

 separate it from the Urus and domestic species with which 

 it has long been confounded, it is necessary to repeat the 



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