BUFFALO. 
SYNONYMES. 
Taurus Mexicanus, Hernandez, Mex., p. 581, Fig. male, 1651. 
Taureau Sauvage, Hennepin, Nouv. Discov., vol. i., p. 186, 1099. 
The Buffalo, Lawson’s Carolina, p. 115, Fig. 
“ “ Catesby’s Carolina, Appendix x.xxii., tab. 20. 
“ “ Hearne’s Journe_y, p. 412. 
“ “ Franklin’s First Voy., p. 113. 
“ “ Pennant’s Arctic Zool., rol. i., p. 1. 
“ “ Long’s Expedition, vol. iii., p. 68. 
“ “ Warden’s U. S., vol. i., p. 248. 
Bos Amemcaxus, Linn., S. N., ed Gmel. 1, p. 204. 
“ “ Cuv., Kegne an 1, p. 2'70. 
Bos Americanus, Harlan, 268. 
“ “ Godman, vol. iii., 4. 
“ “ Richardson, Fa., p. 79. 
Buffalo, Hudson’s Bay Traders, Le Boeuf, Canadian Voyagers. 
American Ox, Dobs, Hudson’s Bay, 41. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Male, killed on the Yellow Stone river, July 16th, 1843. 
The form bears a considerable resemblance to that of an overgrown do- 
mestic bull, the top of the hump on the shoulders being considerably higher 
that! the rump, although the fore-legs are very short ; horns, short, stout, 
curved upward and inward, one foot one inch and a half around the 
curve ; ears, short and slightly triangular towards the point ; nose, bare •, 
nostrils, covered internally with hairs ; eyes, rather small in projiortion 
to the size of the animal, sunk into the prominent projection of the skull ; 
neck, and forehead to near the nose, covered with a dense mass of shaggy 
hair fourteen inches long between the horns, which, as well as the eyes 
and ears, are thereby partially concealed ; these hairs become gradually 
shorter and more woolly towards the muzzle. Under the chin and lower 
jaw there is an immense beard, a foot or upwards in length. 
Neck, short ; hairs along the shoulder and fore-legs about four inches long. 
The beard around the muzzle resembles that of the common bull. A mass 
of hair rises on the hind part of the fore-leg, considerably below the knee. 
A ridge of hairs commences on the back and runs to a point near the in- 
sertion of the tail. On the flanks, rump and fore-legs the hairs are very 
short and fine. 
On the hind-legs there are straggling long hairs extending to the knee, 
and a few tufts extending six inches below the knee ; hind-legs, and 
tail, covered with short hairs ; within a few inches of the tip of the tail 
there is a tuft of hair nearly a foot in length. The pelage on the head 
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