SURAT BUFFALO. 
I HE annexed figure is copied from an ori- 
ginal drawing made at Surat. It was taken 
from the living animal ; and we received it 
through the same friendly channel, as supplied 
us with the beautiful drawings of plants, &c. 
the production of New South Wales. 
There appears to be much confusion, among 
writers of Natural History, between the va- 
rious species of the Ox and of the Buffalo. 
This is the more to be regretted, as it seems 
generally agreed that the two kinds never pro- 
pagate together. 
As we know nothing more of the animal 
represented, than that it is found at Surat f 
that it is about the size of our Common Ox ; 
that it is used for the same purposes ; and that 
it is, generally, either of a whitish or a dusky 
dun colour, and has not all that variety of 
appearances which marks our European do- 
mesticated cattle, though these animals are 
sufficiently plentiful. The flesh of the hunch, 
