. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 144 MAMMALIA. honis have not been sufficiently described. Tliis animal, mentioned by ^lian, was originally from the mountams of Thibet. Its tail constitutes the standard, still used by the Turks to distinguish their superior Fig. 65.—Cape Buffalo. The Cape Buflfalo (Bos caffer, Sparm.).—Very large horns, directed outward and downward and then turned upward, flattened, and so large at base that they nearly cover the forehead, leaving only a triangular space, the point of which is above. It is a very large an
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 144 MAMMALIA. honis have not been sufficiently described. Tliis animal, mentioned by ^lian, was originally from the mountams of Thibet. Its tail constitutes the standard, still used by the Turks to distinguish their superior Fig. 65.—Cape Buffalo. The Cape Buflfalo (Bos caffer, Sparm.).—Very large horns, directed outward and downward and then turned upward, flattened, and so large at base that they nearly cover the forehead, leaving only a triangular space, the point of which is above. It is a very large and extremely ferocious animal, which inhabits the woods of Caffraria. [There are other African Buftaloes of inferior size, a female of one of which (B. brachyceros. Gray), or the Short-horned Buffalo, with very large ears and well-proportioned limbs, is now living in London.] Lastly, The Musk Ox (Bos moschatus, Gm. [^Ovihos mos- chalus, Blainv.]).—Horns approximated and di- rected as in the Cape Buffalo, but meeting on the forehead by a straight line : those of the female smaller and separated. The forehead convex, and extremity of the muzzle hairy. It stands low, and is covered with longhair, that reaches the ground. Tail extremely short. It diffuses more strongly the musky odour common to the whole genus, [and which is also particularly noticeable in the European Bison]. Inhabits the coldest regions of North America, where alone it has been seen, though its skull and bones are sometimes carried by the ice to Siberia. THE NINTH ORDER OF MAMMALIANS,— CETACEA,— Consists of animals without Lind-limbs : the trunk being continued by a thick tail, which terminates in a horizontal cartilaginous fin, while the head is connected to the body by so short and thick a neck, that no diminution of its circumference is perceptible : this neck consists of very slender cervical vertébrée, that are partly auchylosed or soldered together. The first bones of their anterior extremities a
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