222 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



" Has odour any attraction ?" he asks. There are other odorous 

 fungi, however, Mr. Cooke says, " Such as the Agaricus odorus and 

 Agar-icus frngrans which are not attacked by slugs." There is a 

 species of Agari'Vis camped ris, which I have gathered in Thana for 

 several monsoons past which smells strongly of aniseed oil, but which, 

 however, is not liable to the destructive attacks of insects or. small 

 filiform slugs any more quickly than the inodorous Agaricns campestris 

 gathered in almost its immediate neighbourhood. The point is 

 worthy of investigation, and I commend it to the careful study not 

 only of those who are interested in the study of fungi, but also of 

 those who watch the habits of the insects and molluscs which destroy 

 our plant life. 



ON THE GAUR (BOS GAURUS) AND ITS ALLIES. 

 By W: T. Blanfobd, F.R.S., E.Z.S. 



( From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 



page 592, 1890.) 



Very little has been added to our knowledge of the classification, 

 habits, and distribution of the wild Indian Bovidce since Blyth, thirty 

 years ago, wrote an excellent account of the " flat-horned taurine 

 cattle of India."* But an important addition to the opportunities 

 hitherto afforded to residents in London of studying the living 

 animals of this section of the genus Bos has been made by the 

 arrival at the Society's Gardens of a young male { Gaur ' or ' Sladang,' 

 Bos gaurus, in the autumn of 1 889. f Despite many previous attempts 

 to introduce this animal, no other individual is known to have reached 

 Europe alive. Examples of both the other species beloning to 

 the same section have lived in the Gardens. 



The young animal+ now in the Gardens at Regent's Park was 



* J. A. S. B., XXIX., p. 282 (1860). The substance of this paper was sub- 

 sequently republished with additions in a series of articles on " Wild types, and 

 sources of Domestic Animals " that appeared in c Land and Water,' Vol. iii, 1867, 

 pp. 287, 345, 395, 422, 476, 630. 



t See P. Z. S., 1889, p. 447. 



J This animal is now (Nov., 1890) in excellent health and '-onrlition, and has 

 grown to nearly his full stature. 



