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Domesticated Animals. 



fawn to drab, is generally uniform ; but in Africa there arc parti- 

 coloured breeds. Some of the Indian breeds are dwarf. 



The ordinary Indian breed is represented by a bull received from 

 the Zoological Society in 1888. 



In several of the African breeds of Humped Cattle, such as the 

 Galla Oxen, the horns attain huge dimensions, especially in the 

 matter of girth. Several fine pairs of horns are exhibited, among 

 which is one presented by the Abyssinian traveller Salt. 



Fig. 4. — Kuek IIuwpkd Ox. (Froia a pholograph by Captain S. S. Flower.) 



Near akin to the Galla breed are the Nuer Cattle, of the Eastern 

 Sudan (fig. 4), which, in addition to a well-marked hump> have very 

 massive, incurving, lyrate horns, with closely approximated tips 

 (fig. 4). Humped Cattle with horns of a somewhat different type 

 (fig. 5) occur on the Blue Nile. 



The Nuer Cattle may be either uniformly or parti-coloured, but 

 in "West Africa the Moshi and Hausa Cattle are generally, if not 

 invariably, parti-coloured, and often distinctly spotted. In one 

 Moshi Ox the head, middle line of the back, and under-parts were 

 white, and the greater portion of the neck and sides dark. In 



