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ZOOLOGY. 



allied to the European bison, {Bison Europmus Owen), the 

 "auroch," now preserved in the forests of Bialowicza, and 

 living wild in Caucasus. Bos primigenius Bojanus, which 



in the time of Csesar lived in Germany and England bear- 

 ing the name "urus," is the "ur" of the Niebelungen 

 song. Prom it has descended the half-wild cattle in certain 



