390 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



may be of the true or Great Arnee. Each measures along 

 the curve from base to tip, six feet three inches ; circum- 

 ference, at base, eighteen inches. They are subtrigonal ; 

 anterior face, seven inches and a quarter ; external face, 

 three inches and a quarter, and posterior face, seven inches 

 and a half. Wrinkled throughout, with one great sweep, 

 neither bending backward or forward, but uncinating ; 

 smooth and sharp at the point % All other heads and 

 horns referred to Arnee in Baron Cuvier's plates, in the 

 Paris Museum, in the British, and in the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, have the acute angular side of the horns rounded ; 

 the curves are regular semi-circles, besides a backward 

 bend at base, and the tips turned forward ; the largest not 

 attaining five feet along the curves. The true Arnee, is 

 said, besides to be entirely covered with black hair, to have 

 a white epidermis, and a tail scarce reaching to the houghs. 

 In his movements, the nose is not carried horizontally, 

 but so that the horns always remain conspicuous. These 

 observations shew at least, that further inquiries are 

 necessary, and that every buffalo with large horns may, in 

 Bengal, obtain the name of Arnee without, therefore, 

 being the gigantic species which should be understood by 

 it; that is, the black haired, long horned animal near seven 

 feet high at the shoulders. 



Captain Williamson evidently speaks of the true Arnee 

 in the anecdote, where one of these animals pursued 

 a sportsman to his elephant, and ran its horns under his 

 belly to lift him up. This individual was killed, and was 

 upwards of six feet high at the shoulder, nearly three feet 

 in breadth at the breast, and the horns five feet and a half 

 long. 



* This is our measure, as they are at present, appearing partly 

 broke at bottom, and having, in a former measurement, six 

 feet six inches and a half, weighing twenty-nine pounds without 

 the bonv cores. 



