. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . the basal girth i 7^ inches. Thev are more or less flat-tened and angular at the base, with rings for one-half their length, and 4 -«>*•? 3re pointed at the tip, dirtering fromthe other mem-bers ot the ijenusBos bv the dis-tinctly triangularsection ot theirhorns as well as bvthe rounded formot the hinder partof the skull. Ithas a powertulneck, short thicklegs and black hoots, which, being brcjad and splayed,prevent its
. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . the basal girth i 7^ inches. Thev are more or less flat-tened and angular at the base, with rings for one-half their length, and 4 -«>*•? 3re pointed at the tip, dirtering fromthe other mem-bers ot the ijenusBos bv the dis-tinctly triangularsection ot theirhorns as well as bvthe rounded formot the hinder partof the skull. Ithas a powertulneck, short thicklegs and black hoots, which, being brcjad and splayed,prevent its sinking too deep in the mud when plough-ing in the ricefields. r he b u t^-a 1 o,when young, hasa certain amountot coarse bristlyhair ot a darkcolor, sometimeswith a reddishtint, over the headand body, but, un- RUmg buffaloes A Karen hov riding un a water buffali;. THE EVFFALO 19
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