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many sportsmen will sometimes overthrow tlie elephant, I have been 

 charged by a small herd, but a shot or two as they are advancing will 

 usually scatter them. 



Hodgson remarks that " there is no animal upon which ages of domes- 

 tication have made so small an impression as upon the Buffalo, the tame 

 species being still most clearly referrible to the wild ones." He also states 

 that the tame buffaloes when driven to the forests to be depastured have 

 intercourse with the wild bulls, and the breed is thus improved. In 

 Purneah I was informed, however, that the wild buffalo dislike the presence 

 of tame ones exceedingly, and will even retire from the spot where the 

 tame ones are feeding. 



The domestic buffalo is extensively used in India both for draught and 

 as milch cattle, and its milk is richer than that of the cow of India. Some 

 of the hill races, such as those on the Neelgherries, are very fine animals, 

 resembling the wild buffalo ; and many along the ci-ests of the Western 

 Ghats, and elsewhere, are seen with white legs like the Gaur. 



The Cape buffalo, B. cafer, has very large horns^ which nearly cover the 

 forehead. Another African species is B. brachyceros, Gray. 



