paucissima Scythia gignit inopia cruticum, pauca contermina illi Germania, insignia tamen boum ferorum genera, iubatos bisontes excellentique et vi et velocitate uros, quibus inperitum volgus bubalorum nomen inponit, cum id gignat Africa vituli potius cervique quadam similitudine.

Quoted from Gaius Plinius Secundus, C. Plini Secundi Naturalis historiae libri XXXVII : post Ludovici Iani obitum recognovit et scripturae discrepantia adiecta, Leipzig: Teubner (printer), 1875 - 1906

Scythia produces but very few animals, in consequence of the scarcity of shrubs. Germany, which lies close adjoining it, has not many animals, though it has some very fine kinds of wild oxen: the bison, which has a mane, and the urus, possessed of remarkable strength and swiftness. To these, the vulgar, in their ignorance, have given the name of bubalus whereas, that animal is really produced in Africa, and rather bears a resemblance to the calf and the stag.