BUFFALO

(Lat. bubalis.) A term originally applied to a species of antelope; but afterwards transferred, in the age of Martial, to different species of the ox. In modern zoology theBuffalocs, or the "Bubaline group" of the genus Bos, include those species which have the bony core of the horn excavated, with large cells or sinuses communicating with the cavity of the nose; the horns are flattened, and bend laterally with a backward direction, and are consequently le applicable for goring than in the Bisons, [s. 184]