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Linnaeus, proposed the name of B, arnee for the wild 
Indian buffalo, which would be a synonym of B. 
bubalis if the latter be taken to include the wild form. 
It is true, indeed, that in 1827 Colonel Hamilton 
Smith, in the fourth volume of the Animal Kingdom} 
proposed to restrict the name B. ami (as he spelt it) 
to the large straight-horned race, suggesting that the 
Sloane pair of horns in the British Museum might be 
taken as a typical example. On page 30 he is, how- 
ever, a little more definite, stating that there is a race of 
buffaloes in India, with the horns opening 10 feet; it 
is called ami in Hindustan, and is the B. ami of Shaw. 
Again, on page 389 he states that during a shoot- 
ing trip a party of officers killed several wild buffaloes, 
but only one ai-ni. The late Dr. Gray, in the above- 
mentioned volume of the Zoological Society's Pro- 
ceedings^ seems to have adopted, at least temporarily, 
the same view, as he figured Colonel Matthie's 
specimen as the B. amee of Hamilton Smith. From 
what has been stated above as to that name being 
a synonym of the typical buffalo, it appears that 
its employment for the straight-horned race is 
inadmissible. 
Accordingly, it is necessary to adopt a name pro- 
posed by Mr. Brian Hodgson in the Jouinial of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1841 and 1847.2 In 
these passages Hodgson suggested the nd^mQspirocerus 
for the circular-horned, and macrocerus for the straight- 
horned type, remarking that in his opinion the two 
forms certainly indicated distinct varieties, and pos- 
sibly distinct species. The first of these two names 
is a synonym of typicus, or at all events ami\ 
but the second is available for the large straight- 
1 Pp. 389-392. 2 Vol. X. p. 912 ; vol. xvi, p. 710. 
