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The domestic variety is found in Transbaikalia (Radde), Tur- 

 kestan (SevertzofE), and all through Mongolia and Thibet whence 

 It IS used for bringing marchandize across the high passes of the 

 Himalayas to India. 



The wild variety is recorded by Horsfield as having been shot by 

 Captain (now General) Strachey in Ladak. Adams also gives an 

 account of shooting wild yaks on the southern slopes of the Kara- 

 korum Mountains, i.e., in Ladak ; Kinloch gives the valley of the 

 Chang Chenmo as the most likely locality for a sportsman to kill 

 yak; Przewalsky records wild yaks on the northern part of the 

 Thibetan plateau and they probably occur all over the higher 

 parts of Thibet. 



a. Skull and horns 



b. Sknll and horns 



c. Skeleton $ 



(dom. var.) 



d. Skeleton $ 



(dotn. var.) 



e. Stuffed $ 



(wild var.) 



f. Skull and horns 



g. Skull and horns 



(wild var.) 

 h. Skull and horns 

 (dom. var.) 



Sikkim 



No history, A.S.B. 

 W. Rutledge, 1870. 

 Rajah R. MuUick. 



Rajah R. MuUick. 



E. Smyth, 1862, A.S.B. 



No history, A.S.B. 

 Purchased at Almora, 1888. 



W. Rutledge, 1889. 



Bos bubalus. 



Bos bubalis, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. pg (1766). 



Bos bubalus, Gmelin Syst. Nat., i, p. 206 (1788); Hutton y. A, S. B., xv, p. 



142. 

 Bos arnee, Kerr Linn. Anim. Kingd., p. 336 (1792)* ; Cantor y. A, S. B., xv, 



p. 273, Gray P. Z. S., 1855, pi. xl [horns] p. 17. 

 Bos buffelus, Blumenbach Handb. Naturges., loth ed., p, 121 (1821)* ; 



Blanford j. A. S. B., xxxvi, p. 195. 

 Bubalus arna, Hodgson J. A. S. B., x, pp. 469, 912 (1841) ; Jerdon Mamm., 



p. 307 ; Hodgson J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 709 ; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus , p. 179 ; 



Blyth J. A. S. B., xliv, Burma List, p. 49 ; Sterndale Mamm. Ind., p. 490. 

 Bubalus buffelus, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 152 (1843) ; Gray Cat. Hodgs. 



Coll., ist ed., p. 25 ; Hodgson J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 709; Blyth f. A. S. B., 



XX, p. 1 75; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus-, p. 178; Kelaart Prodr. Faun. 



Zeylan., p. 87 ; Gray Cat. Mamm. B. M., iii, p. 25 ; Blyth J. A. S. B., 



xxxi, p. 340; id. Cat., p. 163. 



The Buffalo ; Bhainsa (Domestic Race), Arna, Urna or Jangli 

 bh)Tis (Wild Race), Hind.; Mung at Bhagulpore; Geraerumi, 

 Gond ; Mee harak, Singalese ; Kywai, Burmese. 



Distribution. — In low lands and swampy places, never in moun- 

 tains ; Assam and Ganges valley including the Nepal terai (Hodg- 

 son) and the Sunderbunds. In the peninsula of India from the 

 Ganges southwards to the Godavery River (Jerdon), and westwards 

 to the Weinagunga River and Mandla (Blanford) ; it is also 



