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494 much thinner and less massive than those of the Bison or Buffalo; it is merely a protection to the brain. This skin on dissection was found to be more than two inches thick, and very adherent to the bone; the horns, too, are evidently secreted from the outer part of this cuticle. There is a distinct dorsal ridge, which ends abruptly about the middle of the back, but no distinct hump.

The above description is taken from a Bull which I shot at Tammu, N.E. Frontier, on the 28th of June, 1896.

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