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lunate form of the horns and black colour ; while the se- 

 cond sort, usually but not always domestic, is known by the 

 appellation of Bhain or Byne. Of this sort, the horns are 

 much shorter, bent back towards the neck with the points 

 turned upwards : thus constructed, their arms are but in- 

 different instruments of attack, and serve only to lift, 

 while in the former they are invariably used for goring. 

 But neither of these are the Gigantic, or Taurelephant 

 Arnee, which appears to be a rare species, only found sin- 

 gle, or in small families, in the upper eastern provinces 

 and forests at the foot of Himalaya, though formerly met 

 in the Rhamghur districts. It is probably the same which 

 the Mugs and Burmas name Phang. and consider next to 

 the tiger the most dangerous and fiercest animal of their 

 forests. A party of officers of the British cavalry, stationed 

 in the north of Bengal, went on a three months'' hunting 

 expedition to the eastward, and destroyed in that time 

 forty-two tigers, but only one Arnee, though numerous 

 wild buffaloes became their quarry. When the head of 

 this specimen rested perpendicular on the ground, it re- 

 quired the outstretched arms of a man to hold the points 

 of the horns. These are described as angular, with the 

 broadest side to the rear, the two others anterior and in- 

 ferior, wrinkled, brownish, standing outwards, not bent 

 back, straight for near two-thirds of their length, then 

 curving inwards with the tips rather back : the face is nearly 

 straight, and the breadth of the forehead is carried down 

 with little diminution to the foremost grinder. The best 

 figure we are assured, is in Captain Williamson's Oriental 

 Field Sports. 



Our own researches, both abroad and in England, have 

 always found skulls, not of this, but of the Common Ar- 

 nee of Bengal, such as are figured in Shaw, and in the 

 Ossemens Fossiles, excepting a pair of horns in the British 

 museum, which correspond with those before noticed, and 



