BOS. 



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Bibos asseel, Horsfield Cat. E. 1. Mus., p. 181 (1851). 

 Bibos frontalis, apud Thompson, P. Z. S., p. 96 (1852). 

 Gavaeus gaurus, Blyih J. A. S. B., xxix, p. 282 (i860) 



Jerdon Mamni., p. 301 ; Maingay P. A. S. B., 1868, 



Manivi. hid., p. 481. 



Blytk Cat., p. 161 ; 

 p. 194; Sterndale 



The Bison or Gaur ; Gaur or Gourigai, Hind. ; Gaviya, Mahrathi ; 

 Jungli Khoolga, Deccan ; Kar-kona, Canarese ; Bod at Seone ; 

 Banparra at Mundlah ; Vanago, Bengali ; Katuyeni, Tamil ; Ran- 

 pado, Guzerati ; Ran Hila, Bheels ; Pyoung, Burma. 



Distribution. — The peninsula of India in forest tracts, from the 

 Vindhyan Hills along the north of the Nerbudda (Jerdon) ; south- 

 ward through Kandeish and the Western Ghats to Tinnevelly 

 (Elliot) ; eastward through the Central Provinces and Chota Nag- 

 pore almost to Midnapore (Jerdon) ; the Nepal terai (Hodgson); 

 Assam ; Tipperah and Chittagong Hills ; southwards through 

 Burma (Blyth) to Malay peninsula (Cantor and Maingay) but not 

 recorded from any of the Islands. 



It doubtless formerly occurred in Ceylon, since the Guavera of 

 Knox's description of Ceylon is doubtless the Gaur, and Major 

 Forbes (Journal of Eleven Years' residence in Ceylon, ii, p. 159) 

 asserts that it was only at the beginning of the present century 

 that it was exterpated. 



Skull, horns 



Skull, horns 5 Assam 



Skull, horns 



Skull, horns Gauhati, Assam 



Skull, horns ^ Chybasa. 



Skull, horns Malacca 



Skull, horns Gauhati, Assam 



Skull, horns ^ Burma 



Skull, horns^ 



Skull, horns $ Tipperah hills 



Frontlet ^ Chittagong hill tracts 



Skull, horns Chittagong dist. 



Frontlet $ Chittagong hill tracts 



Skull, horns Chittagong hill tracts 



Skeleton, juv. 



skin. ^ 



Skeleton, juv. 



skin. $ 



Stuffed $ Chanda 



Stuffed ^ Chota Nagpore 



Skeleton ^ 



Skeleton ? Chota Nagpore 



; Skull, horns 



Skull and $ Bhutan Dooars 

 skin of head. 



Skull and Chittagong hill tracts 



horns. 



Pr. of horns $ 



W. T. BIanford(i868). 



F. Jenkins (1844), A.S.B. 



No history. 



F.T. Pollok(i87o). 



S. R. Tickell (1840), A.S.B. 



Dr. Maingay, (1863). 



F. T Pollock (1870). 



Sir A. Phayre, A.S.B. 



C. S. Guthrie (1862), A.S.B. 



Rev. J. Barbe, (1846) A.S.B. 



J. T. Jarbo (1879). 



J. A. Campbell (1879). 



J. T. Jarbo (1879). 



J. T. Jarbo (1879). 



Zoological Gardens (1883). 



Zoological Gardens (1883). 



W. T. Blanford (1867). 



A. A. Kinloch (1883). A.S.B. 



Major Ousley (1840). 

 Purchased, 1847, A.S.B. 

 A. A. Kinloch, 1882. 



J. T. Jarbo, 1881. 



No history, A.S.B. 



