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Bullocks or humped cattle at Madras, India. Note the difference 

 between these and the water biuff'alo 



is in some cases displacing the huri"al() in tlie interior. 

 These conditions have a tendency to decrease the num- 

 ber of buffaloes and consequently the supply ot buftalo 

 hides. 



BUFFALO HORNS 



The horns and sometimes the hocjts ot the animal are 

 used by the natives in making large transparent lanterns, 

 and, before the prohibition ot opium, large quantities 

 were made into cups for packing and storing the drug. 

 They are exported in large quantities to Europe and the 

 United States — 1 ,000,000 pounds Irom China alone in 

 I 91 7 — to be used in making combs, shoehorns, knite 



