416 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Dar nach Schluch er Schiere, einen Wizend und einen Elch 

 Starcher Ure viere und einen grimmen schelch * — 



where we find one Bison and four Uri slain in the woods 

 near Worms. In the legendary romance of St. Genoveva 

 the Bubalus occurs, but is there expressedly stated to mean 

 the Urus. In England the well-known adventure of Guy 

 Saxon, Earl of Warwick, with the Dun Cow, proves that in 

 the tenth century such actions were still in the memory of 

 the people, if not actually common ; and the alleged de- 

 vastations of the beast are only the same as those which 

 caused the Macedonian Philip to hunt his quarry about 

 mount Orbelaf, and seem to be a trait by which this 

 species was distinguished from the Bison even among the 

 Latin poets : but the adventure of Guy is not singular, for 

 we find Fitz Stephen speaking of the Uri Silvestres, which 

 in his time, that is about 1150, infested the great forests 

 round London. The family of Turnbull in Scotland claims 

 the date of its name, from having turned a wild bull from 

 King Robert Bruce, in the act of attacking that hero while 

 engaged in hunting these animals, which must have been 

 early in the fourteenth century; and last Boetius mentions 

 the Jubati Bisontes, by which he means the wild race of 

 white-coloured oxen, the breed of which is still extant in 

 a diminutive form, and now preserved in parks. 



The ancient German and Polish race is figured only in 

 the works before quoted or their copyists : but we found 

 an old painting on pannel of indifferent merit in the hands 

 of a dealer at Augsburgh, which represents the animal, and 

 judging from the style of drawing &c, may date from the 

 first quarter of the sixteenth century. It is a profile repre- 



* The reader may refer to the article Elk for the translation of 

 these lines. The bull fights of Spain originated in the chase of 

 the Wild Urus, and a Celtiberiau vase with an undeciphered Celti- 

 beiian inscription represents the animal and the hunter. 



t AnthoL GrcBc. lib. 6. 



