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secured some heavier than the twelve-pointed one figured 

 below. Its length is 33| inches round the curve of each 

 antler, and extreme spread 36 inches. There are few 

 larger in the forests. 



In the rains the wild buffalo wanders in herds all over 

 these Mandla highlands. They mostly disappear, however. 



HOENS OF bAea-singhI deee. (Scok, one-tenth.) 



when the tame cattle are brought up to graze in the open 

 season, a few only hngering in the most secluded vaUeys ; 

 and they must then be sought in the less accessible jungles 

 to the south and west. Thither I must carry the reader 

 to introduce him to the animal, as I never was in the 

 Mandla district at the time when the bufialoes are found 

 there. 



