1050 The American Naturalist. [December;. 
Indians with us said that they were from battles with buffaloes, 
and that the samarou, though only one-half or one-third the size 
of these huge animals, would attack them at sight, and that on 
account of their great speed and their sharper, straighter horns, 
they usually conquered. A- measurement of our specimen 
showed it to be eight feet one inch in length from tip of nose to 
end of tail; tail, seventeen inches to tip; tuft of hair at tip of tail, 
two and one-half inches; height at shoulders, three feet four 
inches; height at hip, three feet six inches; fore leg to brisket, 
` one foot seven inches ; horns, seventeen and three-fourths inches. 
in length; circumference at base, thirteen inches, somewhat tri- 
angular and heavily ridged; distance between bases of horns, one 
and one-half inches; width of horns, eleven inches apart. After 
measurements of another bull and a cow proved to agree almost 
exactly with this, the cow being eight feet in length to tip of tail. 
The horns were not so large at their bases, and were farther apart, _ 
and the neck was not so thick; otherwise the size and shape 
were practically identical. A calf perhaps three or four months: 
old differed greatly from the adult in color, being chestnut, with a 
black line along the back and black markings upon the legs. On 
skinning our ¢amarou, the roundness was found to be due to 
the thickness of the skin and the immense development of the 
muscles. . We found that two Winchester balls had passed through 
the heart, and that after this the animal had been able to get up 
and charge, showing as much vitality as a grizzly bear. I set our 
Indians at work cleaning the bones for a skeleton, while I under- 
took to preserve the skin, which, from its great thickness and the 
moist weather, was a difficult matter. Our fire was now sur- 
rounded by pieces of the meat, roasting; the kettle was full of 
meat, boiling ; and old Juan set at it to make tapa (jerked beef) 
of the balance; while Antonio, who regularly borrowed one of our 
guns and went out to hunt famarou, and as regularly returned 
without finding game, took the refuse and staked it down across 
the river, and said that now he would catch a crocodile. The 
night following we had rain again, which was favorable by wash- 
ing out all old tracks, and the next morning Mateo was again 
successful, this time killing a cow, which we got to camp in the 



