TEE INDIAN WILD BUFFALO. 51 



back of the horn, but you cannot see this in the front view. Of 

 abnormal heads I have only seen two — one a bull whose head is figured 

 at p. 125 of vol. I of this journal. The distance between the tips of 

 the horns of this head is 5 ft. 1 inch. It looked when alive like a 

 huge lop-eared rabbit. I had a very long tramp after it seeing it 

 several times, and eventually shot it through the eyeball. He was a 

 solitary bull, and when I first saw him he ran towards me, mdde 

 threatening gestures with his horns, and just as I thought he would 

 charge, turned and bolted unfired at. The other was a cow. One horn 

 grew straight down the cheek and was a short stump with a blunt end. 

 Another solitary bull I killed was covered with white spots all over 

 the size of half a crown—some sort of skin disease 1 presume. 

 Buffaloes frequently rest lying flat on their side with their legs stretched 

 straight out. The first one I saw in this posture I thought was dead 

 and was surprised when he jumped up. If you shoot a buffalo in a 

 herd and he runs a short distance before dropping, or if he sits down 

 wounded, the rest of the herd always pull up and stand looking at him. 

 They pay no attention to you, and you can easily get close up to them 

 again, but as there is seldom more than one bull worth shooting in a 

 herd, this is of no practical importance. If buffalo see you and you 

 remain standing perfectly still with your legs close together and arms 

 close to your side, they will stand staring at you for ever. Bull No. 2 on 

 plate B and the herd with him saw me when I was two hundred yards 

 off. I remained quite still, and after a very long time they began to sit 

 down ; the bull sat down last of all, and just as I began to move, up he 

 got and took another long look. He then sat down again, and when 

 he sat down he was hidden by a fringe of long grass, close behind 

 which the herd had Jain down. This enabled me to creep to about ten 

 yards of him when his fate was sealed. Wild buffaloes are much larger 

 than the tame buffalo and have more hair ; their legs are a dirty 

 white, beginning from just above the hock and knee, in this respect 

 being similar to bison. A large bull stands 5 ft. 6 inches or a little more 

 at the shoulder. I measured one to be 5 ft. 8h inches. Baldwin says that 

 they are occasionally a few inches over 6 feet ! ! Jerdon says their 

 height is up to 6 1 feet. I do not think so. I should say that they weigh 

 considerably more than a bison does. I have heard members of a 

 herd gently grunting to each other as they moved along, but only once, 



