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make a sudden drop to the thirteenth and the lumbars, the twelfth dorsal 

 being included in the side of this drop. Although the horns, as in 

 the typical group, are situated on its extreme vertex, the skull exhibits 

 certain differences of conformation on its hinder, or occipital aspect, by 

 means of which it may readily be distinguished from that of the 

 latter. 



Distrihutioti. — The Oriental region. 



I. The Gaur — Bos gaurus 



Bos gciiiriis, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 399 

 (1827) ; Evans, yourn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi. p. 223, pi. xvi. (1837) ; 

 Elliot, i/^iJ. X. p. 572 (1841) ; Blyth, i/?iJ. xi. p. 444 (1842), xxi. p. 433 

 (1852), xxxi. p. 336 (1862) ; Mac Master, Note's on "Jcrdon, p. 128 (1870) ; 

 Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. Coll. Surgeons, pt. ii. p. 227 (1884) ; 

 Blanford, P>-oc. Zoo/. Soc. 1890, p. 592, Fauna Brit. India — Mamm. p. 484 

 (1891) ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 124 (1H91) ; 

 Huet, Bull. Soc. Acc/im. Paris, vol. xxxviii. p. 12 (1891) ; Ward, Records 

 of Big Game, p. 270 (1896) ; Pollok, Zoologist, ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 2 

 (1898). 



Bos [B/son) gaurus, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v. 

 P- Z7?> (1827). 



Bos gour, Hardwicke, Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 233 (1828); Cantor, 

 yourn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv. p. 272 (1846). 



Bos gaycrus, Hardwicke, loc. cit. (1828). 



Bison gaurus, Jardine, Naturalist's Library — Mamm. vol. iv. p. 251 

 (1836). 



Bibos subliemacbelus, Hodgson, yourn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi. p. 499 



Bibos cavifrons, Hodgson, yourn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi. p. 745 (1837), 



