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thority of Mr Fennant ; though fome of the kinds confidcred only as varieties feem fully as fpecifi- 

 cally different from the reft as others which are here placed as difHndt fpecies, and even fome of thefe 

 laft have very near.refemblances either to each other, or to one or other of the varieties of this firft 

 fpecies. » 



A. Wild Ox. — 1. a. B. Taurus ftr us. a. 



735 a. Urns.— 1. a. a. B. Taurus Urns. 



Has thick fliort horns which are reflected forwards, and a curly fore-head. BrifT. regn. 



an. So. n. 3. 



Bos ferus. Plin. hift. nat. viii. c. 15. — Urus. Caef. bell. gal. vi. c. 28. Gefn. quad. 157. Aldrov. 



bif. 347. f. p. 348. Jonft. quad. 50. t. 20. Raj. quad. 70. Klein, quad. 11. Bell, trav. i. 221. 



Rzacz. pol. 228. Bewick, hift. of quad. 38. and fig. — Bos filveftris. Charlet. exerc. 8. — Auerochs. 



Gefn. thierb. 299. Sm. Buff. vi. 150. Ridinger, wilde th. t. 37. Brit. zool. i. 15. Penn. hift. of 



• quad. n. 6. 



Inhabits the marfhy woods of Poland, Pruffia, and Lithuania. — This is probably the ftock of all 

 the European domeftic breeds •, and though Dr Gmelin quotes Sibbald under the third variety, Bifon, 

 as defcribing the wild cattle of Scotland with a long mane, there is reafon to fuppofe that circum- 

 ftance a miftake, as the remains of that breed, ftill preferved in feveral parks in England, have no 

 mane, and referable the common breed very much. Thefe are invariably white, with white horns, 

 black nofes, and-red, black, or brown ears ; they are exceedingly wild, and rather dangerous, efpe- 

 cially the Bulls in rutting time, and the females when ruckling their calves. Bewick, hift. of quad. 

 34. and fig. 



736 /2. Bonafus.-— I. a. b. B. Taurus Bonafus, 



The horns are reflected backwards, and the neck is furnifhed with a long mane. 

 Briff. regn. an. 84. Syft. nat. ed. xii. 99. 



Bovxrro;. Arift. hift. an ii. 5. 7. xi. c. 71. — MsvaJ-. Aelian. an. vii. c. 3. — Bonafus. Plin. 

 hift. nat. viii. c. 15. Gefn. quad. 145. Aldrov. bif. 358. f. p. 361. Jonft. quad. 51. t. 18. 19. 

 'Charlet. exerc. 8. Raj. quad. 71. Sin. Buff. vi. 150. 



737 y. Bifon. — I. a. c. B. Taurus Bifon. 



The horns are reflected forwards, the back is hunched, and the neck has a long mane. 

 Syft. nat. ed. xii. 99. n. 3. 



Bos Bifon albus, having the horns reflected forwards, and the neck clothed with a very long 

 mane. Briff. regn. an. 82. n. 5. — Bos Bifon, having the horns reflected forwards, the back hunch- 

 ed, the neck furnifhed with a long mane, and the throat with a long beard. Briff. regn. an. 82. n. 6. — 

 E;ra»s ; . Oppian. cynsg. ii. 159. — Bifon. Plin* hift. nat. viii. c. 15. Gefn. quad, 143. Aldrov. bif. 

 353. 357. f. p. 355. 356. Jonft. quad. 51. t. 16. 17. Charlet. exerc. 8. Sibbald. Scot. 7. Raj. 

 quad. 71. Rzacz. polon. 214. Sm. Buff. vi. 150. — Wyfent. Gefn. thierb. 296. 



The Bonafus and Bifon, though confklered as diftinct by Dr Gmelin, are fuppofed by the Count 

 de Bufron to be the fame animal, and to be the original ftock of all the European Oxen ; conse- 

 quently 



