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A NADEAH CALF. 
By Lieut. TV". C. Mac Dougall, Stud Department. 
Saharmpoor; March 9, 1860. 
Dear Sirs, —If the inclosed is worth insertion in the 
Veterinarian , you are welcome to it. Few people in India 
are without animals of some kind, and many practical and 
experienced officers could give much valuable information to 
the veterinary surgeon, if they would only take the trouble. 
I have often seen page after page written in the rough, of 
strange and curious cases, but the fairing out has been pro¬ 
crastinated from day to day, until the papers have lost their 
interest, and never reached your journal. 
Yours faithfully. 
To the Editors of the c Veterinarian .* 
A NADEAH CALF. 
As you do not hear much about Indian horned cattle, I 
send you a description of a calf, born on the 1st instant, by 
the government pure-bred Nagore bull, ic Bahadoor Sing,” 
out of my spotted cow, “Mary,” her breed being half Hereford 
and half Scinde. 
It was reported to me by my old servant, early in the 
morning of the 1st of March, that a calf had been born with a 
“ tongue” on its back, and that in consequence I might hope 
for very much good luck; as the god “ Mahadeo ” had thought 
fit to select from my flock an animal for his own especial 
riding, and had marked the same in his own peculiar way. 
Upon my visiting my cow-house, I found that the calf was a 
very fine red bull, with an excrescence of skin, covered with 
white hair, hanging from the top of the hump, about seven 
inches long and of a soft nature, in appearance resembling a 
child’s stocking, dangling from side to side as the animal 
moved, but in no way unsightly or repulsive to look at. 
The natives are flocking from miles round to see this calf, 
and I am told that if the fakeers (holy mendicants) can only 
get the chance, they will be sure to steal the animal, for the 
purpose of making money by showing it at villages and 
fairs. 
Animals of this description are called “Nadeah,” and are 
supposed to be very holy. They are usually exhibited covered 
with a kind of earth-coloured cloth, trimmed with cowrie 
