[49] Idem, ii. 20.
[50] Idem, xv. 24.
[51] Idem, xv. 24.
[52] Idem, Anim. iii. 3.
[53] Idem, iv. 32.
[54] This is more particularly explained in the chapters upon Deer and Oxen, in the fourth volume of Professor Cuvier’s Recherches.
[55] Aurochs is Bos Urus, Lin., not the Urus of the ancients, which latter appears now to be extinct.
[56] Buffon having read in Du Fouilloux a mutilated passage of Gaston-Phébus, Count de Foix, in which that prince describes the chase of the rein-deer, imagined that, in the time of Gaston, this animal lived in the Pyrenees; and the printed editions of Gaston were so faulty, that it was difficult to make out, with certainty, what the author had intended to say; but having had recourse to his original manuscript, which is preserved in the Royal Library, I have ascertained that it was in Xueden and Nourvègue, (Sweden and Norway), that he relates having seen and hunted the rein-deer.
[57] Athenæis, lib. v.
[58] The only error committed, is that of giving it a claw too much to the hind foot. Augustus exhibited thirty-six of them; Dion, lib. lv.