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much thinner and less massive than those of the Bison or Buffalo ; 

 it is merely a protection to the brain. This skin on dissection was 

 found to be more than two inches thick, and very adherent to the 



bone ; the horns, too, are evidently secreted from the outer 

 part of this cuticle. There is a distinct dorsal ridge, which 

 ends abruptly about the middle of the back, but no distinct 

 hump. 



The above description is taken from a Bull which I shot at 

 Tammu, N.E. Frontier, on the 28th of June, 1896. 



Measurements as follows: — 



Height at shoulders 15 hands ft. in. 



Length (nose to tip of tail over back) 14 



Length (nose to tip of tail across body) 11 9 



Length of head and neck (above) 3 10 



Length of head and neck (below) 3 



Length of tail 2 11 



Length of ears 10 



Girth (middle of body) 7 10 



Girth (chest) 7 



Girth of fore leg above knee 15 



Girth of hind leg above hock 1 6 



Girth of neck (middle) 3 10 



Girth of haunch 1 11 



Skull and Horns. 



Length of skull anteriorly 1 11£ 



Distance between orbits 1 2 



Breadth of forehead (between horns) 10 



Length of left horn (base to tip round curve) 33£\ 



Length of right horn (base to tip round curve) 31 



Girth of right horn (base) 16 



Girth of left horn (base) 17 



Distance between tips 26| 



Distance between convexities 38| 



Head. 



Girth round muzzle 2 1 



Length of eye-slit 3 



Length of nares 2f 



Girth of head (above eyes) 3 4£ 



Feet and Legs. 



Length of fore leg (hoof to knee) 1 6 



Length of hind leg (hoof to hock) 1 10 



Length of hoof, fore foot (under surface) 6 



Length of hoof, hind foot (under surface) 5 



Breadth of hoof, fore foot 4 



Breadth of hoof, hind foot 4 



* Measured before — J. R. Melluse, Lieut. ; G. Warneford, Lieut. ; H. S. 

 Wood, Surg.-Capt. 



