CHAPTER XIII 



BUFFALO AND BISON 

 By Major C. S. CUMBERLAND 



BUFFALO 



THIS most sporting of all the Bovidas is found 

 only in Bengal and Assam. A few are found on the 

 Upper Chindwin river of Burmah, but they are 

 sprung from the domesticated, or rather semi- 

 domesticated, herds kept by natives ; only taken up 

 for ploughing when wanted, and sometimes not 

 taken up at all, and so reverting. There is absolutely 

 no difference between the wild and tame beast 



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