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Bos (Bubalus) bubalis, LydeMer, Wild Oxeyi, Sheep, and Goats, 

 p. 118, pi. ix, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 83, 1907, The 

 Ox and Its Kindred, p. 223, 1912, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. AIus. 

 p. 4, 1913 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, 6th ed. p. 427, 1910. 



Bubalus bubalis, Hollister, Phili2)j>ine J. Sci. vol. vii, p. 45, 1912. 



Indian Buffalo : Arni. 



Typical locality unknown. 



Size typically large, shoulder-height reaching, it is 

 stated, as much as 6J feet. Hair of middle line of back 

 and neck directed forwards from haunches ; ears relatively 



Fig. 15. — Head of Indian Buffalo {Bos bubalis). 



small and not heavily fringed. Horns typically very large, 

 flattened, transversely rugose, widely separated at the base, 

 and either curving in a crescentic form or directed mainly 

 outwards, with an upward and somewhat forward curvature 

 near the tips. Throughout their length the horns depart but 

 little from one plane. Horns of females more slender, and 

 not infrequently longer than those of males. Skull relatively 

 light, narrow, and long, with a nearly straight facial profile ; 

 nasals elongated and slender, narrow near the middle, and 

 projecting on either side considerably beyond the middle 

 suture, and their longest diameter laterally ; vomer fused with 



