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than the twelve-pointed one figured below. Its length 

 is 33^ inches round the curve of each antler, and ex- 

 treme spread 3G inches. There are few larger in the 

 forests. 



In the rains the wild buffalo wanders in herds all 

 over these Mandla highlands. They mostly disappear, 



HORNS OF BARA-siNGHA DEER. {Scole, one-tentli.) 



however, when the tame cattle are brought up to graze 

 in the open season, a few only lingering in the most 

 secluded valleys ; and they must then be sought in the 

 less accessible jungles to the south and west. Thither I 

 must carry the reader to introduce him to the animal, 

 as I never was in the Mandla district at the time when 

 the buffaloes are found there. 



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