Note 1654 — BOOK VIII. THE NATURE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS.

This appears to have been a species of antelope, the Antelope bubalus of Linnæus. Cuvier observes, that Strabo places it among the gazelles, and Aristotle associates it with the stag and the deer, while Oppian’s description of the urus, agrees with those of the gazelle.—B.