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the ears are long .and broad: the horns are very fhort, they do not exceed eight inches 
In length, and are turned in fuch a manner, as to be quite unfit for wounding: the 
neck is fhort and thick, and is ornamented with a mane like that of a horfe, which 
hangs down quite to the bread:: the body is very bulky, much more fo than in the 
common bull; the legs are very thick and robuft, but fhort; the tail is long: the co¬ 
lour of the whole animal is a deep tawny, only the forehead and the bread: are white : 
the mane is of a darker and browner colour than any other part. 
This is a native of the Ead, and of many other of the warmer climates. When 
purfued, it does not attempt to defend itfelf with it’s horns, but kicks and difcharges 
It’s dung to a great didance againd the purfuers, Aridotle, and all the old authors, 
have defcribed it, they call it Bonafus. 
Eos juba longiffima , dorfo gibbofo . 
The Bos , with a very long mane , and a gibbofe bach 
This is a robud and fierce animal; it is equal to the common bull in fize: the head 
is very large, broad,, and fhort ; the nofe is obtufe ; the nodrils are large, and the eyes 
are large and fierce in their afpedt: the horns are longer than in the common bull, 
and point more forwards: the neck is very robuft and thick ; there hangs all down it 
a mane confiderably long and fhaggy quite to the bread : the body is very bulky and 
unwieldy : the legs are fhort and thick j the tail reaches to the ground 5 there is a large 
bunch on the ridge of the back, like that of a camel. 
This is a native of America, and is a very fine creature. Authors call it Bos Ca- 
melita and Bifon. 
Bos cornubus vajlis , intortis , refupinatis . 
The Bos , with very large , crooked\ and refupinated horns 26ttff&l0fc* 
This is a very large fpecies; it is equal in fize to our bigged oxen : the head is very 
large ; the forehead remarkably broad, and the afpedt very fierce and terrible : the eyes 
are large and prominent } the ears are large, long, and patulous: the horns are vadly 
large, of a coal-black colour, and intorted 5 they are very thick at the bafe, but fiharp 
at the point: the neck is thick, and remarkably fhort; the flefh hangs very loofe un¬ 
der the throat ; the body is more bulky, in proportion, than in our bull, and the legs 
are thicker, but about equal in length. 
The colour is ufually a blackifh-grey, but in this there is great variation : there is 
ufually fome white under the belly, and about the forehead. 
This is a native of the Ead, but it has been introduced into Italy, and fome other 
parts of Europe, where it is kept for fervice. It is a bead of burthen and draught in 
the pope’s territories ; and the milk of the female is ufed as that of our cows. But it 
is apt to be mifchievous, and is lefs fit to be truded loofe in fields where people walk. 
All the writers on quadrupeds have mentioned it. There has been fome difpute whe¬ 
ther the name of the Bubalus or BufFaloe belonged to this fpecies, or to fome other. 
It has been, by fome authors, applied to the other fpecies, but this mod agrees with 
the olded defcriptions. 
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