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Head of Indian Buffalo. Shot by the Maharaja of Cooch Behar. 
The INDIAN BUFFALO or ARNA (Bos [Bubalus] bubalis). 
No one is the least likely to confuse this animal with the African 
species. Both belong, indeed, to the same group of the genus Bos, 
and have the same rounded upper portion of the head and angulated 
horns. In the Indian species, however, the head is much longer, the 
ears are narrower and less heavily haired, and the horns of the male 
are widely separated on the forehead and totally different in form. 
Two types of horns may be recognised—one very massive, and curving 
regularly up from each side of the head in a subcircular manner ; the 
other more slender, directed for the greater part of their length 
almost straight out from the head, and always with a wider spread. 
The first is the typical race (4. dubalis typicus), while the second, or 
Assam, race (probably now extinct) is B. dubalis macroceros. <A third 
race from Assam has been named #. 0. fulvus, but it is by no means 
certain that this is anything more than a tawny-coloured phase of 
the typical race. Height at shoulder about 6 feet 2 inches; girth 
behind shoulder, 10 feet 8 inches. In a bull shot by the Maharaja 
of Cooch Behar the length from the nose to the tip of the tail was 
14 feet 2 inches, and to the base of the tail 11 feet; the maximum 
