SYNOPSIS OP THE 



Pacasse, Gallini and Carli. Empaguessa, Merolla. Em- 

 pacasse, Lopez, Marmot. Pegasus, Pliny. Wadan ? Ca'P' 

 tain Lyon's Travels. B. Pegasus, Nobis MS. 



Icon. Drawing in the Collection of Prince John Maurice 

 of Nassau in the Berlin Library. Nobis a young specimen. 



Habitat. Congo, Angola, Central Africa. 



891. 3. * B. Arnee. Adult male said to be near seven 

 feet high at the shoulders, three feet broad at the breast, 

 and the horns from five and a half to six and a half feet 

 long (each) ; face nearly straight ; breadth of head de- 

 scending from the summit of the frontals to the foremost 

 molar; horns triangular, rising obliquely, wrinkled, brown- 

 ish, slightly hanging forwards, with the points turned in- 

 ward and backward • hide white ; colour black ; very hairy ; 

 tail with the tuft reaching little below the houghs. 



B. Arnee, Shaw. Arnee, Arnaa, in Indoostan. Pfang ? 

 of the Burmans ? Taurelephantus, Ludolph. 



Icon. Shaw's Zoology ? Oriental Field Sports. Horns, 

 Nobis. 



Habitat. The woody valleys at the southern foot of the 

 Hymalaya Mountains and in the Birman Empire. 



The domesticated race, China, the Peninsula of Malaya, 

 and Indian Archipelago. 



892. 4. B. Bubalus (Domestic Buffalo.) Adult male 

 five feet six inches high at the shoulder, eight feet six 

 inches long ; horns directed sideways, compressed, with 

 a ridge in front, reclining towards the neck, and the tips 

 turned up, placed at the side of the frontal ridge, and very 

 solid ; the forehead convex ; mammae of the male placed 

 on a transverse line; hide dark or black ; tail long, slen- 

 der, tufted at end ; hair coarse, scattered, black. 



B.Buhsdus, Auct or. Bhsiin in Indoostan. Bufius of the 

 Middle Ages. BufHe, Buffon. Yamus, Arabic. Buwol, 

 Polish. Busan, Tartaric. 



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