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horn in the Britisli Museum measures six feet six inches in length, 

 and when on the skull the pair must have had an outer curve 

 measurement of nearly fourteen feet. There is also another pair 

 there attached to the skull, which belonged to an animal killed in 

 Assam by Colonel Mathie, and they measure twelve feet two inches 

 from tip to tip across the forehead. 



Colonel Pollock ^ states that the largest animal he ever killed 

 was twelve feet to the root of the tail, and the tail two and a half 

 feet long, the height six feet two inches, size of horns round the 

 outer circumference ten feet four inches, and five feet between 

 the tips. "I killed a cow," he writes, "with horns ten feet 

 eight inches, and I have seen them killed up to twelve feet, but 

 these are getting very scarce now. I had in my possession a head 

 of a cow-buffalo that measured thirteen feet eight inches in cir- 

 cumference, and six feet six inches between the tips, the largest 

 buffalo's head in the world. I believe I gave them to the late 

 Lord Mayor ; they belonged to a cow potted by a policeman from 

 a tree ! The thickest horns I ever had were from a bull I killed 

 in Burmah ; they were not long, being of the curved kind, but 

 the girth of one horn was twenty-seven inches and the other 

 twenty-six and a half inches." 



Wild buffaloes inhabit the dense jungles to be found near swampy 

 or marshy ground. They are occasionally found in the Terai 

 below Nepaul, and are numerous at the foot of the hills between 

 Oude and Bhotan, also in the plains of lower Bengal and in 

 the eastern portion of the game teeming jungles of Eaipur of 

 central India, also in Assam, Ceylon, and Burmah. 



The animals to be found in these latter places are generally of 

 a larger size than those seen elsewhere. " The Burmese buffa- 

 loes," according to the previously quoted author, " have huge 

 heavy horns, much curved, as a rule, but the other variety with 

 long straight horns is also found, but less plentifully; they 

 inhabit remote swampy districts, and at times do a good deal of 

 damage to the crops, as they are fearless, and often will not be 

 driven off; they herd with elephants and rhinoceros, and occa- 

 sionally with bison, but as a rule the bison inhabits different 

 "Sport in British Burmah," 1879 



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