. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . r resemblancewith the European ox. Hennepin, in the narrative of his discovery ofLouisiana, and his travels through that country, between the years 1669 and1682, gives a very good description of the bison, together with a figure,which is apparently a copy of that of Recchus. It does not appear to haveexcited much attention in Europe until lately, when several specimens,naving been imported into England, were exhibited under the attractivetitle of bonasus, which,
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . r resemblancewith the European ox. Hennepin, in the narrative of his discovery ofLouisiana, and his travels through that country, between the years 1669 and1682, gives a very good description of the bison, together with a figure,which is apparently a copy of that of Recchus. It does not appear to haveexcited much attention in Europe until lately, when several specimens,naving been imported into England, were exhibited under the attractivetitle of bonasus, which, though described by the ancients, was asserted to Bos Americanus, Gmel. MAMMALIA-BISON. 383 have been lost to the moderns, until recognised in the American American bison, has, in fact, much resemblance to the aurochs of theGermans, {Bos urns, ,) identified by Cuvier, with the bonasus ofAristotle, the bison of Pausanias and Pliny, and the urus of Caesar; andwhich, down to the reign of Charlemagne, was not rare in Germany, butis now nearly confined to the hilly country lying between the Caspian andBlack The bison wanders constantly from place to place, either from beingiisturbed by hunters or in quest of food. They are much attracted by thesoft tender grass, which springs up after a fire has spread over the winter they scrape away the snow with their feet to reach the bulls and cows live in separate herds, for the greater part of the year,but at all seasons, one or two old bulls generally accompany a large herdof cows. In the rutting season, the males fight against each other withgreat fury, and, at that period it is very dfingerous to approach them. Thebison is, however, in general, a shy animal, and takes to flight instantly onwinding an enemy, which the acuteness of its sense of smell enables it todo, from a great distance. They are less wary when they are assembledtogether in numbers, and will then often blindly follow their le
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