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THE WAiER BUFFALO 



( Often i.illcd Tin- -Mi/.l f.uff.ilu ) 



1"^! IE water or mud luiffalo (/'///'(////,f hnffclus), trom 

 whose hide rawliide Iddhi pickers are made, 

 inhabits the Malav Arcliipelago and southern 

 China, and is also found in the Pliilippines. It should 

 not he confounded with the so-called American Init- 

 falo, which is not a hLiffalo hut a hison, differing from 

 the true buffalo both in appearance and anatomy. 



THE WILD nrFFAEO 



The wild buffalo is found in the plain ot lirahmapu- 

 tra and the Gantres, at the toot ot the Himalayas, trom 

 eastern Assam to Tirhut and abmy; the coast ot Mid- 

 napur and Orissa proxinces in India, as well as on the 

 grass lands of the eastern portions ot the Central Prov- 

 inces, especially in Mandla, Raiptir, Sambalpur and 

 Bastar, whence it extends as tar south as the Ciodavari 

 and Pranhita valleys. It is also tound in Purma, in the 

 northern part of Ceylon and in the Philippines. It li\es 

 in the tall grass jungles and in the neighborhood ot 

 swamps, feeding in the evening and early morning and 

 lying down in the water or mud ot the swamp during 

 the day. 



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