Bisontes

Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.

The Romans were drawn by camels; and Pliny tells us that Mark Antony made use of lions. Heliogabalus did the same; and also of boars, stags, wild asses, bisontes, and oryges, a sort of animal with one horn, which Ptolemy, according to Athenæus, drew his carriage with.[…]Asses, wild—Bears—Bisontes—Boars—Buffaloes—Bulls, and foreign ones—Camels—Camelopards—Crocodiles—Crocotta, an animal between a dog and a wolf.

The Buffalo dance is one of the principal ceremonies of the year among many tribes. It takes place before the hunting season of the Bison, and has been fully described by Pennant.[…]Like the rest of the Bisontes, the Yaks are more fond of mountainous woods and valleys, than the open plains, keeping on the south side in winter, and on the north in summer.

On the Rhine, skulls of gigantic Bisontes and Uri occurred, and Dr. Boué found human bones mixed with others of extinct species at Lahr.

Deer, as gigantic in proportion to existing species, were the contemporaries of the old uri and bisontes, and may have disputed with them the pasturage of that ancient land; […]