380 MAMMALIA—ARNEE...BUFFALO. 
THE ARNEE! 
Tus animal, which is an inhabitant of various parts of India, north of 
Bengal, far exceeds in size any of the cattle tribe that has hitherto been dis- 
covered; it being from twelve to fifteeen feet in height. The horns, which 
are full two feet in length, are erect and semilunar, flattened, and annularly 
writ.kled, with smooth, round, approaching points. The arnee is seldom 
seen within the European settlements; but a very young one was picked 
up alive, in the Ganges, some years ago, which was as big as an immensely 
large bullock, and weighed nearly three quarters of a ton. A British officer, 
who found one in the woods in the country above Bengal, describes it asa 
bold and daring animal, and its form as seeming to partake of the horse, 
the bull, and the deer. Some of the native princes are said to keep arnees 
for parade, under the name of fighting bullocks. 
THE DOMESTIC BUFFALO? 

‘ue buffalo and the ox, although greatly resembling each other, both 
tame, and often living under the same roof, and fed in the same meadows; 
vet, when brought together, and even excited by their keepers, have ever 
refused to unite and couple together. Their nature is more distant than 
that of the ass is from the horse; there even appears to be a strong antipa- 
thy between them: for it is affirmed, that cows will not suckle the young 
buffalos; and the female buffalo refuses the same kindness to the other’s 
calves. The buffalo is of a more obstinate nature, and less tractable than 
the ox; he obeys with great reluctance, and his temper is more coarse and 
brutal. Like the hog, he is one of the filthiest of the tame animals, as he 
shows by his unwillingness to be cleaned and dressed; his figure is very 
clumsy, and forbidding; his looks stupidly wild; he carries his tail in an 
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1 Bos arnee, Suaw. 2 Bos bubalus, Lin. 
