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indicating separate sub-species. The following dimensions ot horns are 

 recorded by Mr. Rowland Ward ; some of the specimens from Assam 

 possibly belonging to the next race: — 



Distribution. — In a wild state, India, throughout the plains of the 

 Bramaputra and Ganges valleys from the eastern end of Assam to Tirhut, 

 the Terai as far west as Rohilcund, the plains in the neighbourhood of the 

 coast in Midnapur and Orissa, as well as the plains in the Eastern Central 

 Provinces, including the districts of Mandla, Raipur, Sambalpur, Bastar, 

 etc., at least as tar south as the valleys of the Godaveri and Pranhita ; also 

 the northern parts of Ceylon. In Burma and the Malay Peninsula and 

 Islands (inclusive of the Philippines and Celebes) buffaloes are found 

 indistinguishable from the present race, and some of which are now in a 

 wild condition. Whether, however, they have reverted to this state from 

 domesticity, or whether they are indigenous inhabitants of the country 

 they occur, is a moot point. Some of them have the legs whitish as far as 

 just above the knees and hocks, but a similar condition obtains in many of 



