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Distribution : — 



1. B. bubalis bubalis, Type locality: — Eome, Italy (do- 

 Linnseus. mesticated). 



Other localities : — Assam. 

 Type : — Unknown. 



2. B. bubalis macroceros, Type locality : — Assam. 

 Hodgson. Other localities : — Central Assam 



(B. M.). 



Type : — Not traced. 

 S. B. bubalis .fulvus, Type locality : — Mishmi Hills, 

 Blanford. Assam (Hume). 



Other localities : — Mishmi Hills (B. 

 M.). 



Go-types .•— B. M. No. 91.8.7.215, & 

 in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 

 Lectotype :~B. M. No. 91.8.7.215. 

 Note : — / believe the wild buffalo is found over considerable areas 

 in the Central Provinces, etc., but I can find no record of any specimen 

 from that part of India in either the British Museum {including 

 the Hume Collection), or the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Gen. IV.— Ovis. 



No. 343. hodgsoni, Bl. Lydekker treats the first two as 



No. 344. poliy Bl. subspecies of ammon, L., revives 



No. 345. vignei, Bl. cycloceros, and names a new form, 



punjabiensis, as subspecies of vignei. 

 These five forms may be ai-ranged in a key as follows : — 



Key to the forms of Ovis. 



^.— Size small, 32-36 inches high at the 

 shoulder ; a long-haired and parti- 

 ally (or wholly) black throat ruff ; 

 no nuchal or dorsal crest ; tips of 

 horns turning mainly inwards. 



a. Horns curving nearly in one plane 



and tending to form a circle. 

 a^ Size larger, reaching 36 inches 

 at shoulder; much black in 

 ruff, which is small ... ... 1. v. vignei, ^Ij. 



b^. Size smaller, reaching 32 inches 

 at shoulder ; ruff strongly 

 developed ... ... ... 2. v. punjabiensis, 



Lyd. 



b. Horns turning outward at tips, 



forming an incipient spiral ... 3. v. cycloceros, ^nit. 



