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schweiz. Ges. vol. xxii, p. 170, 1867, AhJt. schwciz. i^al. Ges. 



vol. V, p. 189, 1878; Davison, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 447; 



BaTcer, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xv, p. 227, 1903. 

 Bibos asseel, Horsfidcl, Cat. E. Ind. Mus. p. 181, 1851. 

 Gavseus gaums, Blyth, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxix, p. 282, 1860; 



Jcrdon. Mamm. Ind. p. 301, 1867; Sterndale, Mamm. Ind. 



p. 481, 1884 ; Forsyth, Highlands of Central India, 2nd ed. 



p. 112, 1889 ; Sanderson, Thirteen Years Among Wild Beasts of 



India, p. 243, 1890. 

 Bos (Bibos) gaurus, LydeJcker, Wild Oxen, Sheej), and Goats, p. 23, 



pi. i, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 50, 1907 ; Ward, 



Records of Big Game, ed. 5, p. 440, 1907, ed. 6, p. 440, 1910. 



Gaur. 



The following names have been given to the gayal, the 

 domesticated, or semi-domesticated, representative of the 

 gaur, and although the first of these antedates gaurus, it is 

 not considered desirable that it should be adopted as the 

 name of the species : — 



Bos frontalis, Lambert, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. vii, pp. 57, 302, 1804 ; 

 Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet. Ah.-Handl. 1844, p. 76, 1846; 

 Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxxi, p. 838, 1862; 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 1, pi. i ; Sarho, ibid. 1883, 

 p. 143 ; Blanford, ibid. 1890, p. 593, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. 

 p. 487, 1891 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, 

 p. 126, 1891 ; Hiiet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. Paris, vol. xxxviii, p. 9, 

 1891 ; Baher, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xv, p. 227, 1903. 



Bos sylhetanus, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamrn. pi. 418, 1824. 



Bison sylhetanus, Jardine, Nat. Library, Mamm. vol. iv, p. 257, 1836. 



Bibos frontalis, Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 151, 1843, Cat. 

 Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 31, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 13, 1872. 



Gavseus frontalis, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi. 

 p. 706, 1847; Horsjield, Cat. East Ind. Mus. p. 175, 1859; 

 Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxix, p. 294, 1860 ; Stern- 

 dale, Mamm. Ind. p. 486, 1884. 



Bos (Bibos) frontalis, LydeJcker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 31, 

 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 64, 1907. 



Bos gaurus frontalis, Lydehker, The Ox and Its Kindred, p. 177, 1912. 



Typical locality (wild race) probably some part of India. 



Size large (height in bulls from 6 feet to 6 feet 4 inches 

 or 6 inches at withers), build massive, with the body deep 

 and lim bs relativel y short. Ears large. Dorsal ridge 

 strongly developed, ending in sudden step about midway 

 between withers and tail. Skull typically w^ith a high, 

 arched, forwardly curving intercornual ridge at vertex, which 

 is, however, often obsolete in Malay race ; horns flattened at 

 base, strongly curved, with inwardly inclined tips, pale 



