4 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



and that the former is untamable;* but Count Walicki has 

 proved the contrary by crossing the Bison with his Swiss 

 cows. 



Old Sulzer, in his * Geschichte des transalpinischen Daciens,' 

 1781 (i. p. 71), gives an account of a bull Bison "with along 

 mane and short legs," which followed a cow into her stall on 

 several evenings, an incident which Brehm rightly attributes to 

 " amorousness" overcoming natural dislike. Brehm also alludes 

 to the Bison gradually becoming tame, and following people for 

 food, as at Bialowicza for example ; while Count Franz Lazar 

 reported that in 1740 (or as others say in 17 70) he drove to the 

 Diet at Hermannstadt with a beautiful team of Bison from the 

 Gyergyoer Forest, f 



Whether the indomiti boves driven by Oriental princes 

 were Bison or wild cattle is uncertain. In Clothair's time the 

 King drove with oxen to the public assemblies. The Gothic 

 rulers even drove stags, | and so late as the beginning of the 

 present century a head forester near Stettin had a team of four of 

 these animals. 



Bison were for a long time to be found in the Hungarian 

 Siebenbuigen. ' Der Weidmann,' quoting from a work by 

 Stefan Konig (* Die Geschichte der Jagd in Ungarn'), which was 

 shortly to appear, states that the last Bison was killed by a clever 

 crossbow shooter in the forest of Sohl, Upper Hungary, in the 

 reign of King Mathias (1458 — 1490); according to Alex, von 

 Ujfalvy, the last was killed at Borgo on the Play Hohe in the 

 Siebenbiirgen in 1762; while others report that in 1775 some 

 still existed in the Udwarhelyer Komitat. 



Sulzer (op. cit. p. 54) states that Prince Kantemir in describing 

 Moldavia mentioned an animal called Zimbr (i. e. Zubr), which 

 neither he (Sulzer) nor any one else had seen, and which might 

 have been a Buffalo (ein Bilffel). Eichwald at first supposed that 

 a record of the year 1582 of " Zumbro bestise ferae in Tauro- 

 scythia" had reference to the Crimea, but afterwards translated 



* Oscar Schmidt, ■ Die Siiugethiere,' p. 169. 



f 'Neue Deutsche Jagd-Zeitung,' xiii. p. 176; and 'Der Weidmann,' 

 xxiv. p. 432. 



} See Carus, ' Geschichte der Zoologie,' p. 35 ; and Victor Helm's well- 

 known work, pp. 40, 41, 61, 109. 



