THE AFRICAN BUFFALO. 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns bending out laterally. 



Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. 

 Skin, along the lower fide of the neck, pendulous. 



Synonims, 



Bos Indicus, Plin. lib, viii. c. 45. 



Bos Cornibus resupinatis intortis antice planis, 



Linn. Syjl. 99. 

 Bos Cornibus compressis, Brijfon Quad, 54. 

 Bubalus, Gefner Quad. 122. Raii Syn. Quad. 72. 

 Buffalo, Delion Voy. 72. 

 Le Buffle, de Buffon, xi. 284. tab. xxv. 

 Bull Elephants, Ludolph QLth. 52. 



THE general external appearance of the Buffalo fo nearly refembles that 

 of the common Bull or Cow, that we might at nrfl eafily fuppofe them to be 

 mere varieties of the fame animal ; but if we contemplate the habits and 

 difpolition of each, and minutely examine the difference of particular parts, 

 we are inftantly ilruck with the diffimilarity, and ready to pronounce the two 

 fpecies totally difiinel:. The averfion for each other which fubfifts between 

 them is fo great, that it has hitherto been found impoilible to make them 

 breed together. Dr. Sparrman indeed feems to hint at the pofhbility of fuch 

 an union, conlidering it as a curious experiment ; but an insurmountable 

 difficulty prefents itfelf, if we remark the different periods of their geftation : 

 the Cow, as is well known, goes only nine months with young ; whereas the 



