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THE SYLHET OX. 

 Bison Sylhetanvs F. Cuv. 



PLATE XXXI. 

 Jungly-gau, F. Cuv. Hist. Naturetle des Mammif. 



THIS animal was discovered wild in the moun- 

 tains of Sylhet by M. Alfred Duvancel, and a de- 

 scription and figure remitted to Frederic Cuvier, 

 who has published them in his great work. Both 

 these gentlemen were at first inclined to consider it 

 as one of the states or varieties of the domestic cattle; 

 and the opinion of the former was not changed un- 

 til he saw it on its native hills. They were as abun- 

 dant and as extensively spread as the buffalo. They 

 become soon domesticated when taken, and their 

 milk is more abundant, and reckoned better than that 

 of the other. They are hunted like the buffalo upon 

 elephants. 



The horns of the Sylhet bull are placed at the 

 edges of the occipital crest, and are directed to the 

 sides. They are compressed at the base, and be- 

 come smooth as the animal increases in age. The 

 hump on the shoulders is reduced to a slight fatty 

 eminence, which reaches to the middle of the back 

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