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ced into Italy in the fixth century by the Lombards ; they are ufed for draught and carriage, being 

 guided by means of a ring in the nofe, and are employed for the dairy, though the milk is much 

 more greafy than that of common Cows. The fkin is exceedingly thick ; the hair is black or dufky 

 red, and rather fcanty; in very hot countries the fkin is almoft naked; the head is fmall, with curly- 

 hair on the fore-head, and a kind of beard under the throat and jaws ; the horns are black, thick, 

 fomewhat comprefTed, and often very large ; there is no dewlap on the bread; the ears are large, 

 the nofe is broad, and the eyes are white ; the limbs are long, and the tail is fhort and flender. 

 Mr Pennant mentions the following animals as varieties of the Buffalo. 



754 /3. Naked Buffalo. — B. Bubalus feminudus. 



The horns are fmall, comprefTed Tideways, taper, (harp pointed, and Handing back- 

 wards : The rump and thighs are naked. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 8. A. pi. ii. f. i. 



Inhabits India. — This animal is of a fmall fize, like a Welih runt ; the hair on the fore part of the 

 body is briftly, and To thin that the Ikin appears through; on the rump are two dulky perpendicular 

 fnipes, and on the thighs two tranfverfe bands of the fame colour. 



75$ y. Anoa. — B. Bubalus Anoa. 



Of a very fmall fize. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 8. B. 



Inhabits the mountains of Celebes. — This animal, of which we have no defcription, is about the 

 fize of a middling Sheep, and is very fierce ; it lives in fmall herds, taking fhelter in the caverns, 

 with which the mountains of that ifland abound ; is very difficultly caught, and very impatient of 

 confinement. 



756 £. Guavera. — B. Bubalus Guavera. 



Has a hunch on the back ; and the lower half of the legs are white. Penn. hift, of quad. 

 n. 8. C. Knox, Ceylon. 21. 



•Inhabits Ceylon. — The defcription of this animal is not fufEcient to point out its proper place in 

 this genus, all that Mr Knox fays being that its back {lands up in a (harp 'ridge. 



-757 7. Cape Ox.-^6. Bos cafer. 6. 



The horns, which are very broad and clofely united at the bafe, fland firfl outwards, 

 then turn forwards, and the points, which are taper, bend upwards and inwards. 

 Sparrmann, act. Stock. I 779, i. n. 8. t. 3. f. inf. 



Cape Buffalo. Sparrm. voy. pi. ii. fig. inf. — Cape Ox. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 9. A. Maffon, 

 Phil. Tranf. lxvi. 296. Forfters, voy. i. 83. — Bubalus africanus. Briff. regn. an. 79. n. 2. Jonft. 

 quad. t. 18. — Africanifcher Buffel. Gefn. thierb. 60. — Bos africanus. Raj. quad. 73. Aldrov. bif. 

 363. f. p. 364. Jonft. quad. 52. 



Inhabits Africa near the Cape, and in Guinea. — This is a Very large, exceffively fierce, and enor- 

 moufly ftrong animal ; it lives in the woodsj is fond of wallowing in the mire, and is very dangerous 

 to travellers, ruffling fuddenly from the thickets in which it lies concealed, and tramples men, hor- 



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