In 1855 the skull of the musk ox (Bubalus moschatus) was also found in the ochreous gravel of Maidenhead, by the Reverend C.
In the royal cabinet is, first, the skeleton of a bubalus the gentlemen of the Academy bad described and dissected, by the name of the Barbary cow.
This appears clear from Aristotle placing the bubalus with the stags and fallow deer, and not with the oxen.
We have already taken notice in our description of the buffalo, of the name bubalus being improperly applied to that animal.
These alone are the resemblances between the bubalusand the elk; in every other respect these two animals are entirely different.
If we would ascribe the bubalus to any particular genus, it rather belongs to that of the antelope, than to that of the ox or the buffalo[B].
Pliny, in speaking of the wild oxen of Germany, says, that it is through ignorance that the common people give the name of bubalus to these oxen, for the bubalus is an animal of Africa, which in some measure resembles a calf or a stag.
The Bubalus of the Greeks and Romans, is not the buffalo, nor the small ox of Belon; but the animal that the gentlemen of the Academy has described under the name of the cow of Barbary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bubalus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
