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colour, which below the eye is darker, approaching almost to 

 black. The muzzle is greyish, and the hair thick and short. The 

 ears are broad and fan-shaped. The neck is sunk between the 

 head and the back, and is short, thick, and heavy. Behind the 

 neck, and immediately above the shoulder, rises a fleshy gibbosity 

 or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge. This ridge rises 

 gradually as it goes backwards, and terminates suddenly about the 

 middle of the back. The chest is broad, the shoulder deep and 

 muscular, the fore-legs short, with the joints very short and strong, 

 and the arm exceedingly large and muscular. The hair on the 

 neck and breast and beneath, is longer than on the body, and the 

 skin of the neck is somewhat loose, giving the appearance of a 

 slight dewlap. The fore-legs have ■ a rufous tint behind and 

 laterally, above the white. Horns pale greenish, mth black tips, 

 curving outwards, uj^wards, and slightly backwards, and finally 

 inwards. General colour, dark chesnut-brown or coffee-brown; 

 legs from the knee downwards, wdiite." 



I will now briefly refer to the specimens exhibited this evening. 

 They are the skulls of adult male and female, and were procured 

 for me by a European employ^ in the depai'tment of woods and 

 forests. The animals were shot by liim near the Godavery Eiver, 

 in the territory of the Nizam, in May, 1868, and the following is 

 the account he gave me : — " I was camped at a village, some 

 hundred miles from Secunclerabad, on the banks of the Godavery, 

 felling and collecting rosewood. The inhabitants of a neighbouring 

 village told me that a herd of Bison came nightly from the 

 jungle and destroyed the young rice, and begged me to drive them 

 off. I had a hole dug on the border of this rice-field and took up 

 my position there the next night, my only weapon being an old 

 Enfield carbine. Towards morning a herd of ten or fifteen Bison 

 issued from the jungle and began grazing on the rice. I selected 

 what I thought to be the finest, an old bull, and when he came 

 within thirty paces I fired at him behind the shoulder, — he rushed 

 off to the jungle snorting. The herd gave me time to load again 

 before going off, and I shot at a cow that had a calf beside her. 

 She fell dead in her tracks, and the wounded bull was followed 

 up by the natives the next day, and found lying dead in the forest.'^ 

 These two heads were given me about a month after they had 

 been killed, and though they were partially skinned, yet enough 

 flesh remained on them to make them most offensive. The bull's 



