3 a 
A Khi 
_ riages, and is said to perform a journey of thirty miles 
_ (2) The smaller-horned race. 
888 | Hlornless Riminante 
tration, “An Eastern Threshing-Floor” (Fig. 7), in Canon Far 
rar’s “ Life of Christ,” the polls of the animals could hardly b 
better represented, or more thoroughly mooly or humle ina 
ance, though it cannot be claimed that they are so: _ 
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i FIG. 7. 
The late Professor Macgillivray, the distinguished natura 
Aberdeen, in the Yournal of Natural History (published at $ 
burgh) for April, 1837, thus describes the zebus: 
“Of the numberless varieties of the domestic ox, those 
liar to India and the east coast of Africa, formerly a race 
ally known by the name of zebu, or Indian ox, are ae 
India it is also employed for riding, as well as 
Its flesh, although good, is inferior to that of the Europe 
but the hump is reckoned a great delicacy. It paige 
like the other domesticated breeds, the most common brown, 3 
-gray, cream color, or white, but it is often red or ee 
occasionally black; some of the breeds are horned, "boy 
pendulous or flexible horns destitute of the core m 
1d some are entirely hornless.” 
Professor Macgillivray figures four races: ~ 
(1) The largest-horned race. 
