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d to vary as much as in the other species of its genus, and that the peculiarity of the size of the horns was not confined to the male, the female being very amply provided with this ornamental appendage to her forehead." Notwithstanding the bold and confident tone of Mr. Salt's counter-statement, it must be confessed, that the figure which he himself gives from the life (and of which the frontispiece to this volume is an exact copy), seems rather to coincide with Mr. Bruce's account, being, to all appearance, both "lank and emaciated." Engraving of the horns presented by Mr. Salt to the Museum of the College of Surgeons. [Illustration: Horns of Galla Ox.] Ft. In. Length of each round the outer curve 3 10-1/2 Distance between the tips 3 4 Circumference at the base 1 3 Distance between the bases at the forehead 0 3-1/2 The Sanga is usually considered as a mere variety of _Bos Taurus_. This may possibly be the fact; but we have no proof whatever that it is so: no information on this point has been presented beyond mere conjecture. This being the case, and in the absence of direct anatomical evidence, we may be pardoned in considering it, at least, as doubtful; especially as there are so many points of external dissimilarity. The principal differences are: 1st, in the shoulder, upon which there is a hump; 2d, in the back, which descends (as in the Buffaloes and Zebus), abruptly towards the tail; 3d, in the greater length of the legs; and 4th, in the forehead, which is only three inches and a half between the bases of the horns, whilst in the Common Ox it is nine inches. The horns represented in the following sketch, are those of the Hungarian Ox (a variety of _Bos Taurus_), and are almost as remarkable for their length and expansion as those of the Abyssinian Sanga. The length of each horn is three feet four inches and a half, and the distance between the tips is five feet one inch. The sketch is from a specimen in the British Museum. [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [B] Jerom Lobo, in his account of Abyssinia, mentions that some of the horns of the Buffaloes of that country will hold ten quarts. INDIAN DOMESTIC CATTLE. _Bos ----?_ THE ZEBU, OR BRAHMIN OX.--(_Var. alpha._) [Illustration] The opinions expressed in the following extract from Mr. Bennett's descripti
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