LITTLE INDIAN BUFFALO. 
small spots, with horns of the crdinarv colour; 
and BufFon's was of a pale yellow, almost 
black on the back, with horns of the same 
colour as those of the common ox. In the 
figures of Belon, and Prosper Alpinus, the 
bunch on the back is not sufficiently marked. 
The opposite error, BufFon asserts, takes 
place in the figure which Mr. Edwards has 
given of this animal. 
Besides, he ventures to add, the figure is in- 
compleat ; for it seems to have been drawn 
from a very young animal, whose horns were 
onlv beginning to shoot. It came, Mr. Ed- 
wards savs, from the East Indies, where these 
small oxen are used as we use horses. From 
all these hints, and likewise from the varieties 
in the colour, and the natural mildness of this 
animal, it is apparent, Buffon concludes, that 
it belongs to the bunched race of oxen, and 
has derived it's origin from a domestic state. 
After this article was published bv BufFon, 
a Zebu having been brought to the Royal Me- 
nagerie, he gives what he calls a more perfe(9 
description ,: 
