BUG 
BROCK. A term ufed by fportfmen to express 
a badger; and alio to denote a hart in it's third 
year^ 
BRONCINI. A name given by fome natura-- 
lifts to the lupus, or lea-wolf; called, in Englifli, 
the wraffe. 
BRUTE. In the Linnfean fyftem, the fecond 
order of mammalia; the" chara£ters of which are, 
that they have no upper or under fore-teeth; their 
feet are armed with ilrong hoofs ; they are not form- 
ed for fwift or ftately motion ; and they mafticate 
their food. This order comprehends fix genera, 
and feventeen fpecies. 
BUBALINUS SERPENS. This ferpent, the 
anaconda of the Ceylonefe, is a very formidable 
reptile, and extremely deftruftive to cattle ; from 
which circumftance it receives both it's claffical 
and Indian name. 
BUB ALUS. A fpecies of wild bull, fuppofed 
by modern naturalifts to be the fame with the bifon 
and urus. 
BUBO. See Owl. 
BUBULCA. A frefla-waier fifti, called by 
fome naturalifts bouviera and petenfe. It is fmall, 
fiat, and extremely fliort ; rather of a circular than 
an oblong ftiape; and of a fine filvery white colour. 
BUCA. A name fomqtimes given to the buc- 
cinum. 
BUCAO. A fpecies of fcreech-owl very com- 
mon in the Philippine Ifles. It grows to the fize 
4Df a peacock, and is a very beautiful bird; but it's 
nodlurnal Icream is as hideous as can well be con- 
ceived. 
BUCARDIUIvI. A name given by fome con- 
chologifts to a kind of heart-fhell, fo called from 
it's fancied refemblance to an ox's heart. It is of 
the genus of cordiformes, or heart-fhells; and dif- 
fers from other kinds in being more globular. 
The cabinets of the curious afford us feven fpe- 
cies of this Jliell ; namely, a yellov/ furrowed one ; 
a grey fpinofe one ; a white furrowed one ; a thicker 
fiarrow one; a thick one, with a cardo feparated 
from the apex; a thick kind, v/ith the cardo at the 
apex ; and the baftard Noah's ark. 
BUCCEPHALUS, or MOSCHEPHALUS. 
This animal, which is of the fize of a hind, is of a 
fhape between the hind and the heifer; and ap- 
proaches pretty near to the gazelle tribe, of which 
it appears to be a variety. The head, legs, and 
.hoofs, are long and flender; the tail, which is a foot 
long, refembles that of a cow; the head is of a red- 
difh colour; and the horns are black, fmooth at 
their tops, and rough below. This animal has two 
udders ; and is very mild, traftable, and Iportive. 
BUCCINA. A family of ftiells, called whelks 
in Engiifh ; die general characters of which are, 
that their mouths are an oblong, or very length- 
ened, oval; the upper parts of which are produced 
or lengthened into gutters or flight beaks. 
The immenfe quantities of fpecies this family 
contains, as well as their numerous fubordinate 
charafters, have produced fuch perplexity and con- 
fufion among conchologifts, as can fcarcely be un- 
ravelled. 
According to the accurate Da Cofta, the fami- 
ly of Euccina, or whelks, may be divided into the 
fix following genera : 
BucciNA Canaliculata, vel Buccina roftro 
canaliculato. Guttered whelks, or thofe whelks the 
upper parts of whofe mouths terminate nearly in 
ftraight and fome what prolongated gutters. 
Buccina Recurvirostra, vel Buccina ore | 
B U F 
qyafi abfciffo> canaliculo recurvo; Buccina plagi-f 
oftoma. Wry-mouthed whelks ; or thofe whole' 
mouths are, as it were, cut fhort at their tops ; for 
the gutters or beaks do not extend ftraight for- 
ward from the fuperior parts of their mouths, but 
bend or fall on their backs in a wry manner, ex- 
a6lly like the mouths of foles and other flat fiih. 
Buccina Rostrata, vel cum roftro longifll- . 
mo. Beaked whelks ; or thofe which have very 
long beaks, fuch as the crane, the fpindie, the pur- 
pura, and others. 
Buccina Umbilicata. Umbilicated whellcs j 
or fuch as have an umbilicus or perpendicular hol- 
low, or navel, along-fide the columella or pillar- 
lip, on the firft or body whirl. 
Buccina Columella Dentata, vel Plicata. 
Whelks with wrinkled or plaited pillars; and in 
thefe the columella, or pillar-lip, is wrinkled, 
ridged, or worked with plaits. 
. Buccina, Strombi, or needles, having very 
long and taper clavicles or turbans, and wry- 
mouths turning on their backs, in fome fpecies of 
fuch lengths as to refemble fpurs. 
In the Linnsean fyftem, the Buccina form a dif- 
tinft genus of the univalve and fpiral teftacea.- 
Thofe fpecies moft ufually met with on the coafiis 
of the Britifh Ifles are the brown,, mafTy, waved, 
ftriated, reticulated,, and fmall Buccina. The in- 
clofed animal is a flug. 
BUCCO. A genus of birds of the order of picse. 
BUCEROS. a fpecies of raven found in the 
Eaft Indies, Tartary, and China. The head, neck, 
rump, and tail, are of a fine gloffy blaclc, without 
the leaft intermixture of any other colour. It is 
about the fize of a full-grown pullet; the head is 
difproportionably laj-ge; and the beak has a confi- 
derable gibbofity towards the bafe, rifing above 
the reft of the furface. 
BucEROs likewife forms a genus of birds of the 
order of pic^e in the Linnaean fyftem. The beak ' 
is convex, and bent backwards; the upper chap is 
longer than tlie under; the noftriis are fituated near 
the bafe of the beak; the tongue is acute and ftiorti 
and the feet are formed for walking. Of theie 
birds there are four diftind: fpecies. 
BUCK. The male of the fallow- deer, the fe- 
male of whicli is denominated a doe. 
A Buck, the firft year, is called a fawn ; the fe- 
cond, a pricket ; the third, a forel ; the fourth, a fore j 
the fifth, a Buck of the firft head; and the fixth, 
a great Buck. See Deer. 
The term Buck is likewife applied to the males 
of the hare and rabbit kind. 
BUDHURS. The Irifh name for a large Ipe- 
cies of trout externally refembling the red giilaroo. 
BUFFALO, An animal of the cow-kind, 
between wliich and the common ox diere is a 
very ftriking fimiiitude. They are equally fub- 
miffive to the yoke, fi-equent^live under the fame 
roof, and are em.ployed in the fame domeftic fer- 
vices. Tl)tir fi.gures are fo nearly alike, diat it re- 
quires fome degree of attention to be able to dif- 
tinguifh them ; and yet (as BufFon obferves) no two 
animals can be more diftinft, or appear to have a 
ftronger averfion to each other: and were there 
only one of each kind, it is probable that the race 
of both would fbon be extinft. Certain, however, 
it is, that the antipathy of thefe two anim.als is fo 
great, that the cow will not breed v, itli the Buffalo, 
which it fo greatly refembles; though 'it will with 
the bifon, to which animal it has in ftiape but a 
very diftaat fimiiitude, 
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