2. BTJBALUS. 9 



there I procured the skulls of an adult male and female and a live 

 bull. The bull I had photographed [it is figured P. Z. S. 1870, 

 p. 648. fig. 6] ; and the skulls are deposited in the British Museum' 

 The figure shows a better and stronger build than ordinary South- 

 China cattle possess, and proves the two to bo of the same race. 

 The Chinese have done little to improve their breed of cattle ; and 

 you may see this kind in the country from Canton to Ningpo un- 

 changed m form or shape of horns, but, as a rule, a little smaller 

 and more degenerate than the wilder animals from the Formosan 

 mountains. The skull of the bull [I. c. p. 649. figs. 7 & 8] measures 

 iy;5 inches m length ; the horns are somewhat conical, measure 

 8 inches in length each, and stand outwards and backwards. Tho 

 animal is a rich chestnut-brown, with whitish underparts and feet 

 Its horns and hoofs are black."— ^wm/ioe, I. c. p. 648. 



3. Bos indicus. (The Zebu.) B.M. 

 Forehead convex ; withers with a more or less fleshy hump. 



Bos indicus, Grmj, Cat. Utigid. p. 21. 

 Hah. India. 

 Varies greatly in size ; always in a domesticated state. 



4. Bos dante. (The Dante.) B.M. 



Face rather narrow ; forehead very flat, with the horns on the side 

 of the high occipital ridge ; withers with a small but distinct hump. 

 Bos dante, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 22. 

 Hah. Africa, North and West. 



2. BUBALUS. 



Horns depressed and subtrigonal at the base, inclining upwards 

 and backwards, conical, and bending upward at the tip. ("Grav Cat 

 Ungul. B. M. p. 23,t. ].f.2, skuU.) f V J'> • 



* Head elorujate, narrow, a longitudinal groove over the orbit. Forehead flat. 

 Horns distant at the base, more or less elongate, bent otdwards and 

 backwards, and scarcely incu?-ved at the tips. Ears moderate. Bubalus. 



1. Bubalus buffelus. (The Buflfalo.) B.M. 



Bubalus buffelus, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. 31. p. 25. 



Hah. South Europe, North Africa, India, and Indian Islands, 

 Colonel James Matthie presented to the British Museum tho skull 

 and horns of an Arnee or Bufl'alo, killed by him near Fezpoor, Cen- 

 tral Assam, on the 8th of April, 1842. The horns are of a very 

 large size, as proved by the accompanying measurements, being nearly 

 as large as tho separate horns, without a skull, in the British Mu- 

 seum, which formerly formed part of Sir Hans Sloane's Collection, 



