406 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of Male Indian Buffalo. Shot by the Maharajah of Cooch Behar. 



INDIAN BUFFALO or ARNA (Bos bubalis). 



No one is the least likely to confuse this animal with the Cape 

 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 much slenderer, though often quite as long, directed for the 

 greater part of their length almost straight out from the head, and 

 always with a wider spread. Height at shoulder about 6 feet 2 inches ; 

 girth behind shoulder, 10 feet 8 inches. In a bull shot by the Maharajah 

 of Cooch Behar the length from the nose to the tip of the tail was 

 1 4 feet 2 inches, and to the base of the tail 1 1 feet ; the maximum 

 girth being 10 feet 8 inches, and the weight of the head, when cut off, 

 158 Ibs. 



Distribution. Typically India, where the range includes the plains of 

 the Bramaputra and Ganges from the eastern end of Assam to 

 Tirhut, and the Terai as far west as Rohilcund, the plains near the 

 coast in Midnapore and Orissa, and also the plains in the Eastern 



