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O X. 
Common m the interior parts of N. America , in 
the Savanna's ; fond of marftiy places : lodges 
amidft the high reeds: very fierce, but capable of 
beino- tamed : will breed with the common kind: 
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the only animal analogous to the domeftic creatures 
found in America by the Europeans : weighs from 
1600 to 2400 lb. M. de Buffon gives the figure of 
fome horns of this fpecies, which he thinks came 
from the Cape of Good Hope . 
Le Bceuf Mufque Charlevoix v. 194. mufk ox 
Dcbb's Hudfon's Bay 19. 25. and Clerk's Voy. II. 260. 
feem to be the fame with the above. 
Un moult beau petit bceuf d’A- brevioribus, dorfo gibbo juba 7 Dwarf 0 
' frique. Belon<voy. 119, 120. nulla. Lin.jyji. 99. 
Bos Indicus. B. cormbus aure Bekkerelwafh ? Sb&ufstraw*242* 
O. with horns almoft clofe at their bafe, broad and 
flat at the beginning: receding in the middle, al¬ 
moft meeting at the points, and Handing ered: 
larger than a roebuck, lefs than a flag: compad, 
and well made in all its limbs : hair fhining, of a 
a tawny brown: legs fhort, neck thick, lhoulders 
a little elevated : tail terminated with long hairs, 
twice as coarfe as thofe of a horfe. 
The horns of this animal are in the Mufeum of 
the royal fociety, defcribed by Grew . p. 26. whomif- 
takes the animal they belong to. M\ de Buffon ima¬ 
gines his Zebu xi. 439. tab. xlii. to be Belon's 5 
but that as well as Mr. Edwards's little Buffalo , 
plate 200, are only varieties of the Indian ox ( 3 . 
Perhaps the Lant or Dant defcribed by Leo Afri¬ 
cans, p. 340, may be of this kind, of whole hide 
are 
