THE ZEBU. 
Bos Taurus. Var. Indicus. 
There is little difference, except in size, between this, 
the more- common of the Indian breeds, and that which 
we have just described. Both are evidently descended 
from the same original stock; and the distinctions 
between them are merely such as we know to be pro- 
duced by the influence of cultivation, of climate, and of 
food. It is nevertheless a remarkable fact that the 
same region should produce two breeds so strikingly 
unequal in size ; and no less so that in a country in 
which the nearly related species of the Buffalo has 
reached its maximum of developement, the Common 
Ox should have dwindled down to its minimum point 
of degradation. In spite, however, of this degeneracy 
it has lost none of those good qualities which have 
rendered it so essential to the comforts and almost to 
the existence of the human race ; but exhibits even 
