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drier and more open districts than usual tend to a reddish tint, is of 

 great interest in connection with the theory that bhickness in animals (as 

 mentioned in The Deer of All Lamls) is correlated with dampness and heat. 

 The following are some of the largest dimensions of gaur horns 

 recorded by Mr. Rowland Ward : — 



Distrihiitio/i. — The larger hilly forest districts of the Indian Peninsula, 

 Burma, the Malay Peninsula, and probably Cochin China and Siam, but 

 the eastern limits not yet accurately defined. Unknown in the Malay 

 Islands and Ceylon, although stated to have formerly occurred in the latter 

 island, where, however, it may have been introduced. Regarding the 

 distribution in India, Mr. Blanford writes as follows : — " In India at 

 present its extreme north-western habitat is probably the Rajpipla Hills, 

 near Broach ; and west of longitude 80° east the river Narbada forms 

 approximately, though not absolutely, the northern boundary ot its range. 

 It does not inhabit the grass jungles of the Gangetic plain, except close to 

 the Himalayas ; but it is found in the forests at the foot of those mountains, 



