3 8 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS, 



The URUS, or WILD BULL, 



is chiefly to be met with in the extenfive forefts of Li- 

 thuania. It grows to a fize almoft equal to the Ele- 

 phant, and is quite black; the eyes are red and fiery, 

 the horns thick and fhort, and the forehead covered with 

 a quantity of curled hair ; the neck is fhort and ftrong, 

 and the fkin has an odour of mufk. The female, though 

 not fo big as the male, exceeds the iargeft of our Bulls 

 in fize : Neverthelefs, her udder is extremely fmall. 

 Upon the whole, however, this animal, which greatly 

 refembles thofe of the tame kind, probably owes its varie- 

 ty to its natural wildnefs, and the richnefs of the pafturej 

 where it is produced. 



