306 On the Flat-horned Taurine Cattle of S. E. Asia. [No. 3, 



Straight for the basal half and then downward, as shewn in the figure 

 cited. Any one accustomed only to the sight of European or humpless 

 calves at play, cannot but feel some surprise, at first, on witnessing tlie 

 mode in which the humped species carries its tail ; and the propensity 

 of a humped calf to run thus before or beside a horse in harness, and 

 to accompany it for a considerable distance along the road, is a fact of 

 daily observation in this country. 



(To he continhed.) 



Literary Intelligence. 



The Aynuhi ' Bukht' ou¿-? áújf is a work which is not, at all events 

 under this title, mentioned in Elliott's Historians. Mr. E. C. Bayley 

 has sent us a copy of the Preface and conclusión of a MS. of it, which 

 has come into his possession. Its author is Bukhtawur Khan, and 

 its date of composition A. H. 1127. The writer brings down the his- 

 tory of the Moghul dynasty from Baber to Aurungzeeb, but we have 

 not yet ascertained from what materials he has drawn his narrative — 

 ñor indeed who he was. A copy of the work is being made for the 

 Society's Library. 



The following extract from a letter from Lucknow promises inform- 

 ation of great interest from perhaps the most classical spot in India. 



" Rajan Man Singh has drawn up an account of the divisions of 

 ancient Ajoodhia which I have asked him to give to the Society. He 

 says there were three, viz. " Poorub Rasht," " Puchim Rasht" and 

 " Uttur Kosala !" The latter being the modein Gonda Boraitch^ 



He declares also that there were eventually two Buddhist king- 

 doms which sprang up on the decline of the Ajoodhia Raj — one of 



