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This animal was imported as 2iXak\, it was for some time at the Gardens of the Zoological Society, but 
has been lately transferred to Knowsley. 
Dr. Hoffmeister, in his Travels in Thibet, states that half-bred Xaks are common as domestic cattle for 
riding and ploughing. 
Hybrid between the Zebu and Bibos frontalis. 
Jungly Gau. Bos Sylhetanus, F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. t. ? . 
Blackish ; fore-legs white ; face and withers brown. 
Inhabits India. 
2. BUBALUS {H. Smith, not A. Smith). 
Horns depressed or trigonal at the base, rather in front of the occipital ridge, inclined outwards and back- 
wards, conical and bending upwards at the tip ; forehead rather transverse, convex, shelving before 
and behind ; the intermaxillaries are elongated, and extend back so as to go between the nasal and 
cheek bones ; teats four, in a cross series, the outer one rather before the others. 
* Horns separate, not dilated at the base, directed backwards and incurved at the tip. 
The Zamous. Buhalus Brachycerus. 
Forehead flat ; horns short, thick, depressed at the base ; ears very large, strongly fringed on the 
edge, and with two diverging fringed lines within ; fur short, close, brown. 
Bos Brachycerus, Gray, Ann. N. Hist. t. , young female. — Roulin, D'Orb. Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. ii. — Bos 
Bubalis, Children, Clapperton's Voy. — Bos Caffer, var. Sundev. — Bos caffer, Ruppell, Abyss. 
Inhabits W. Africa; Sierra Leone. Two heads, British Museum. Skeleton, British and Paris Mus. 
The specimen of Bos Caffer from Abyssinia in the Frankfort Museum appears to be this species. The 
horns are 8 inches apart, and do not extend over the forehead ; and the fur is pale brown, more abundant, 
and quite unlike the Cape specimens of Bos Caffer in the London and Paris Museums. In the Abyssinian 
skulls the intermaxillaries extend to the edge of the nasal, and are thin at the base. 
The specimen of the female Bos Brachycerus which the Jardin des Plantes purchased of Cross, after I 
had described and figured it, died on the 24th of June, 1844. It was made into a skeleton, which is now 
in the Gallery of Anatomy at Paris. The metatarsus is 8 inches 6 lines long ; the metacarpus 7 inches : 
and in B. A^nericanus the metatarsus is 6 inches 6 lines long ; the metacarpus 7 inches : the bones of the 
latter are much more slender. 
Mr. Whitfield, in 1846, brought with him from Gambia a female that had been presented by the King 
to the Governor of Gambia for the British Government, but it unfortunately died during a storm on its 
passage. The skeleton of this specimen is now in the British Museum Collection. This female was quite 
tractable and easily managed by men ; but as soon as any fowl, sheep or cow came near, it immediately ran 
at them, and it is said to have killed two common cows while in confinement at Gambia. The old male, 
according to the account of Mr. Whitfield, has long hair on the front of the fore-legs, like the Ovis Trag- 
claphus. 
Mr. Blyth has noticed two species of Wild Ox found in N.W. Africa : — 
1. Sherif al Wady {Bos Atlanticus, Blyth), from Mount Atlas. One lived some months at Tangiers. 
2. JVadan ? or Pecasse ? with a flowing nuchal mane, found in large herds at Rabat and Salee on the 
Barbary coast. — Ann. N. H. ix. 62. This is no doubt the Bos Pegasus (H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 386. t. 
V. 890), the Pegasus (Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 21), the JVadan (Lyon's Travels). 
The Buffalo. Buhalus Buffelus. 
Forehead convex, rounded ; horns large, flattened at the base, black, on the plane of the face, bent 
down and incurved at the tip ; ears not quite half the length of the head, slightly ciliated ; fur 
rough, irregular, bristly, often very far apart ; of face, before the eyes, two-rowed. 
Bos Bubalus, Brisson. — B. Bubalis, Linn. — Bos Buffelus, Blumenb. — Bubalus Buffellus, Gray. — Bos Kerabau, 
S. Miiller, t. .—Buffle, Buffon, xi. t. .— F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. t. .—Buffalo, Penn. 
Var. 1. Horns very elongate, nearly straight, curved at the tip. 
Bos Arnee, Shaw, Zool. ii. 400. t. 240.— Jrnee, Knight, Mus. A. N. f 747. 
Var. 2. Body nearly naked. 
Naked Buffalo, Penn. Syn. i. 8. t. 2. f. 1. 
Inhabits India ; Java. Domesticated in N. Africa and S. Europe. Far. 2. British Museum ; young ; 
from Zoological Society's Gardens. 
