336 MAMMALIA, PECORA. Oxr. 



746 2-. Arnee. — Bos Arnee. 



Has long erected femilunar horns, which are flattened and annularly wrinkled, with 

 fmooth, round, approaching points. Edin. Col. muf. Weir's muf. 



Inhabits India north from Bengal. — This animal is of vaft fize, and is hitherto nondefcript. A 

 fkeleton of the head with the horns is in the Edinburgh College Mufeum ; the defcription given of 

 the living animal^ by a Britifh officer, who met with one in the woods in the country above Bengal, 

 is, that it is about fourteen feet high, moft probably eftimating the diftance from the ground to the 

 tip of the horns, that it partakes of the form of the Horfe, Bull, and Deer, and was very bold and 

 daring ; this laft circumftance eftablifhes its genus, as all the other horned, animals of the ruminant or 

 cloven footed tribe are fhy and timid ; and is confirmed by a Mogul painting in the pofleffion of the 

 late Mr Rofs of Edinburgh, in which, among a vaft variety of figures are two enormous Bulls, with 

 horns exactly like thofe in the mufeum, and which feem at leaft eight feet high at the Ihoulder, if a 

 man walking clofe by the fide of one be taken as a fcale. The engraving, which is an exact, copy from 

 the above mentioned painting, even without attempting to correct its erroneous drawing, will give a 

 more accurate idea of the Arnee, by which name the animal is- known to the natives of India, than 

 can be conveyed in words. Except in the form of the horns, it refembles our common breed, and, 

 by the painting, is of a black colour, quite fmooth, and without hunch or mane. 



747 3. American Bifon. — %. Bos americanus, 2. 



Has fhort, rounded, diflant horns, pointing outwards ; the neck, fore-head, breafr, 

 and chin, are clothed with long woolly hair, and the fhoulders are highly hunched. 

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



Bos Bifon americanus. BrhT. regn. an. 83., n. 7.— Taurus mexicanus. Hernand. mex. 587.: — 

 Taurus Quivirae. Fernand. an. 10. — Armenta. Laet, amer. 303. Nieremb. hift. nat. 181.— Tau- 

 rus novae orbis. Nieremb. hift. nat. 182. — Florida Bifon. Raj. quad. 71. Klein, quad. 13. — Boeuf 

 de Canada. Charlev. nouv. fr. iii. 131 — Boeuf fauvage, Du Pratz, louis. ii. 66. — American Bi- 

 fon. Sm. Buff. vi. 198. pi. clxviii. — BufFelo. Lawfon, carol, ri'5; Brickn. n> ameiv 107. Cateihy, 

 carol, app. 27. t. 20. — American Beeves. Dobbs, Hudfon's Bay. 41. — Wilde Ochfen. Kalm, It. ii. 

 350. 425. iii. 351. — American Ox. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 6. H. — Bifon. Penn. Arch zool.n. 1. 



Inhabits Mexico and the interior parts of North America, as high as near Hudfon's Bay. — Is found 

 in great herds in the Savannas, is fond of marfhy places, and lodges among reeds ; is very fierce and 

 dangerous, yet may be tamed when taken young. It is of vafbfize, weighing from fixteen hundred 

 to near three thoufand pounds^ the fore parts of the body are exceffively thick and.ftrong, and are 

 covered at all feafons with a long undulated fleece of a dull ruft colour ; the hinder parts are very 

 flender and weak in proportion, being naked, wrinkly, and dufky in fummer, but covered like the 

 foreparts in winter ; the fhoulders are furmounted by a large flefhy hunch ; the tail is about a foot 

 "long, moftly naked, and tufted at the end with black hairs. Mr Pennant confiders this and the 

 European Bifon as of the fame fpecies. 



^.3 4. Mufk Ox. — 3. Bos mofchatus. 3. 



The horns, which are very thick, broad, and clofe at their bafes, bend outwards clofe 



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