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India, to be quite misplaced. Formerly, this race was oc- 

 casionally reduced to a precarious domesticity, by order, 

 and for the amusement of, the native princes ; but now they 

 use the largest of the domestic breeds : these are mounted 

 by their keepers and brought into the Arena to engage in 

 battle with the Tiger, who is almost invariably defeated. 

 The race of the Common Arnee is also, it would appear, 

 domesticated in the eastern states : a white variety is found 

 in Tinean, and other islands of the Indian Archipelago. On 

 the coast of Cochinchina, and the Maylayan Peninsula 

 this race appears to predominate : they are of very great 

 bulk, with the horns, when seen in front, forming a true 

 crescent ; their skulls are the usual Arnees of European 

 Museums. Although the skin of the white variety be rosy, 

 the muzzle and edge of the lips are yet black, the eyes are 

 large and dark, the snout longer and narrower than in the 

 black-skinned Buffalo, and their height at the shoulder is 

 not five feet, owing to the legs being short. Those of Siam, 

 both wild and domesticated, are ashy gray, larger than an 

 ox, the muzzle much prolonged, and the horns very long 

 forming a cresent above the head. This variety ? has a shrill 

 weak voice, and the domesticated are more easily managed 

 by children, than by grown men. 



The Domestic Buffalo. (B. Bubalus.) Whether or not the 

 Arnee of Bengal be the stock from which the Domestic 

 Buffalo is descended, certain it is that the species now 

 under consideration, is still found in a wild state, as well 

 as domesticated, and that in all countries, sufficiently un- 

 inhabited and affording the requisite conditions, the black- 

 skinned domestic animal will soon supply a wild breed. 

 This occurs whenever local circumstances are favourable, 

 even in the kingdom of Naples, and we might draw an in- 

 ference from this fact alone, that the species with crescent 

 horns, are distinct from the present, although both have 

 breeds which have received the yoke of man ; nor if it were 

 proved that a prolific intermediate race exist, produced by 



