932 Gen. Hard wi eke 



publication, a figure taken from a pair of horns* of the Gouvy 

 killed I believe by the same hunting party described by Capt. 

 Rogers, and presented to me by the principal member of that 

 party, the late Major Roughsedge. 



It will be found on inspection of the horns, and by comparison 

 ■with those of the Gayal^ that the difference of structure is 

 strongly marked; and tends to establish the non affinity of species 

 between the Gour and the Gayal. ? 



Of the Gayal (Bos Gaywiis) of Colebrooke, 8th vol. Asiatic 

 Researches, there appears to be more than one species. The pro- 

 vinces of Chattgong and Sylhet produce the wild, or as the 

 natives term it, the Asseel Gayal^f and the domesticated one. 

 The former is considered an untameable animal, extremely fierce, 

 and not to be taken alive. It rarely quits the mountainous tract 

 of the S.E. frontier, and never mixes with the Gobbah^ or Village 

 Gayal of the Plains. I succeeded in obtaining the skin, with the 

 head of the Asseel Gayal, which is deposited in the museum of the 

 Hon. the East India Company, in Leadenhall Street, and from 

 which the drawing was taken, which accompanies that of the 

 horns of the Gour» I 



I may notice another species of Gayfil, of which a male and 

 female were in the Governor-General's park, at Barrackpore. 

 This species differs in some particulars from the domesticated 

 Gayal, and also from the Asseel or true Gayal i first, in size, 

 being a larger animal than the domestic one ; secondly, in the 

 largeness of the dewlap, which is deeper and more undulated than 

 in either the wild or tame species | and thirdly, in the size and 

 form of the horns. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE AND DIMENSIONS OF THE ANIMALS. 



PI. VII. Fig. 2. Bos Gour, or Wild Bull, of the Mountaino 

 District of Ramgurh, and Table-land of Sirgoojas. 



* These horns may be inspected in the museum of the Zoological Society, 

 to which they have been presented by General Hardwicke, together with many 

 other valuable subjects of Indian Zoology. — Ed. 



f True Gayal. The natives make a great distinction between the wild and 

 the domesticated Gayal. 



