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where oxen with straight backs and Taurine horns are re- 

 presented forming part of the tribute of several Satra- 

 pies. They now abound in that country, and are spread 

 westward to Morocco and Guinea, and through the Galla 

 States to the Caffres and Madagascar. They have in gene- 

 ral small and crumpled horns, and much white in their 

 colouring. 



The large species of India, equal to the Bulls of largest 

 stature, have a lump on the back, weighing sometimes 

 fifty pounds ; it is usually red or brown : the horns are short 

 and bent backwards. 



The middle-sized race, Common Zebu or Deswali of India 

 and Northern Africa, white or blue-gray and white, 

 brown, and even black, breeds commonly with the straight- 

 backed, and loses the hump on the shoulders in the fourth 

 generation. This race has horns mostly bent forward and 

 upwards it is not unfrequent in England. 



The Chinese breed, in size equal to the smaller British 

 race ; hump not very large ; forehead round ; very short 

 horns, bent back ; dewlap loose ; colour often white. It is 

 often figured on china-ware. 



The small Zebu race, with small or no horns, commonly 

 whitish -gray: size of a hog. 



The Abyssinian breed, white and black in clouds, low on 

 the legs, with the horns hanging loose, forming small 

 horny hooks, nearly of equal thickness to the point ; turn- 

 ing freely either way, and hanging against the cheeks. 

 This breed transferred to Caffraria, and mixed with the 

 straight-backed, has lost its hump, retaining the other cha- 

 racters, and is esteemed very valuable. 



Beside these varieties, a race remains to be mentioned, 

 reared in Abyssinia, the Galla country, and Northern Cen- 

 tral Africa: it is of large size, generally white, and armed 

 with immense horns. Travellers agree that they are 

 hunched ; but in some accounts they are considered as 



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