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Bubalus, H. Smith Griffith An. Kingd., v, p. 371 (1827). 



Anoa, H. Smith Griffith An. Kingd., v, p. 355 (1827). 



Bibos, Hodgson J. A. S. B., vi, p. 499 (1837). Type, B. gaurus, 



Poephagus, Gray List Manim. B. M., p. 153 (1843). Type, B. grunniens. 



Gavaeus, Hodgson J. A. S B., xvi, p. 706 (1847). ^J/^i B. frontalis. 



Zebus, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxix, p. 283 (i860). Type, B, indicus. 



Key of the Indian Species, 



a. With smooth flattened horns never exceeding 3 feet in length ; 

 legs white; hair always short; frontal bones concave. 



h. White of hind legs extends to rump, forming an anal patch ; 

 tail long ; premaxillary bones reach and touch the nasals ; 

 dorsal ridge not marked. . . B. SOndaicus, p. 127. 



b^. White colour confined to the legs, premaxillary bones do not 

 reach the nasals ; dorsal ridge marked. 



c. No dewlap; tail long; skull elongated. 



B. gaurus, p. 124, 



c^. Dewlap present ; tail short; skull markedly triangular. 



B. frontalis, p. 126. 



e^. Horns cylindrical ; nose hairy ; no dewlap, hump or dorsal 

 ridge ; body clothed in parts with very long hair ; frontals 

 convex B. grunniens, p. 128, 



a*. Horns very large and flattened, generally exceeding 3 feet in 

 length; body very sparsely covered with hair; hoofs very 

 large ; thirteen pairs of ribs. . . B. bubalus, p. 129, 



Bos gaurus. 



"Gaour," Geoffrov Si. Hit. Mem. Mus. Paris., ix, p. 71 (1822). 



Bos sp. "Gour of India" Traill Edin. Philos. Jour., xi, p. 334 (1824). 



Bos gaurus, H. Smith Griffith An. Kingd., iv, p. 399 (1827) ; Evans J. A. 



S. B., vi, p. 223 ; Pearson ibid, p. 225 ; Blyth J. A. S. B., xi, p. 444 ; 



Cantor, J. A, S.B., xv, p. 272; Blyth J. A. S. B., xxxi, p. 336; Blanford 



J. A. S. B., xxxvi, p. 192; Blyth J. A. S. B., xliv, Burma List, p. 47; 



McMaster Notes on Jerdon, p. 128 ; Pollok Sport in Brit. Burma, i, p. 99 ; 



Nevill Taprobanian, iii, p. 5; Inverarity J. Bomb. Soc, iv, p. 294. 

 Bos gour and gayseus, Hardwicke Zool. Journ., iii., p. 233 (1828). 

 Bibos subhemachalus, Hodgson J. A. S. B., vi, p. 499 (1837). 

 Bibos cavifrons, Hodgson J. A. S. B., vi, p. 745 (1837) ; Elliot Madr. Journ., 



X, p. 227, pis. V, vi ; Hodgson J A. S. B., x, pp. 449, 912 ; Horsfield 



Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 181. 

 Bibos gaurus. Gray Cat. Hodgs. Coll., ist ed., p. 24 (1846) ; id. Cat- Mamm, 



B. M., iii, p. 32 ; P. L. Sclater, P. Z.S,, 1889, p. 447. 



