HUMPED CATTLE OF ASIA AND AFRICA i 5 5 
Passing on to a review of the chief types of 
humped cattle, it may first of all be mentioned 
that numerous breeds and sub-breeds are found in 
India, all of which have the horns comparatively 
slender, although they may be of considerable length. 
In North-west India the oldest representative of the 
species is the Gujrati breed, which is of large size, 
with big drooping ears, and the horns of the type 
described, as figured on Plate XX. The bulls are 
very generally dark iron-grey, while the cows are 
lighter; and the hump is often very large. In 
most of the other breeds the ears do not droop, and 
it is among these that the black bulls of upper and 
central India are found. The Gujrati breed, of 
which an adult bull is shown in Plate XVII, Fig. 2, 
is, as stated above, the old type of humped cattle of 
North-western India. In modern times there has, 
however, been produced — probably from the former 
stock — an altogether distinct type, known as the 
Hissar breed. This breed, of which an adult bull 
is exhibited in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), 
was developed for the purpose of drawing artillery 
and military trains. It is of large size, and of great 
power, but of relatively slender build. Bulls are 
generally iron-grey, with relatively short black horns, 
curving to a considerable extent outwards and some- 
what downwards. 
The humped cattle of southern India, of which 
there are numerous breeds and sub-breeds, have been 
fully described by Colonel W. D. Dunn.^ Among 
these, the bulls of the typical representatives of the 
handsome Mysore breed are frequently black,vand 
The Cattle of Southern India, Madras (Dept. of Agriculture), 
1909. 
