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AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE BOVINE ANIMALS 
IN THE DISTRICTS OF NORTH AFRICA. 
Communicated by Mr. Crowther, of the Queen's 63r/ 
Jlegime?it. 
The “ Sherif al Wady” (or river-chief), stands six feet and 
upwards at its elevated withers. General form, bisontine ; the 
carcass somewhat narrow, with flakes or rolls of fat on the side 
of the neck ; the limbs fine-boned, and rather long, being termi- 
nated by comparatively small neat hoofs ; the succentorial rather 
long ; tail short, with its tuft of frizzled hair not reaching to the 
hocks. The head, it would seem, much like that of ordinary 
cattle, with small pointed ears, generally borne pendent and 
naked of hair internally and towards the tip, which are of a de- 
licate pinkish flesh-colour; eyes small and dark; the horns thick, 
cylindrical, smooth, until towards their base, where they are a little 
rugose, and directed almost vertically upwards from the sides of 
the forehead ; their colour dark, and their length about a foot and 
a half. The character of the coat approaches that of highland 
cattle in Britain, but is smoother toward the under parts, with 
curly hair on the forehead ; some pendant hair from the site of 
the dew-lap (which latter is wanting) of the dark colour of the 
body, and a long but scanty white tuft hanging from the prepuce, 
as in fallow-deer. General colour, blackish brown, with a white 
belly; the centre of the hump pale ash-colour, or even whitish, 
with radiating black hair surrounding this, four or five inches long. 
The cow is smaller, and of a redder colour. 
The individual described was brought with two others, another 
male and a female, from the central region of Mount Atlas, and 
was presented by the Emperor of Morocco, in the year 1834, to 
the late Sir Peter Schousbae, who gave it to Mr. Crowther, in 
whose possession it lived for four months at Tangiers, when it 
was shot. 
It became tolerably tame, and its voice was a booming low, 
although, when irritated, it would roar in a different tone. The 
