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XX. Further Account of the Bos Frontalis (p. 57). 

 By Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. F. R. S. V. P. L. S. 



Read February 7, 1804. 



Oince I presented to the Society the last account of the Bos 

 Frontalis, or Gyallof India, Mr. Fleming, a gentleman who is just 

 returned from that country, has very obligingly communicated to 

 me the following further particulars relative to that animal. This 

 account was transmitted to Mr. Fleming by Mr. Macrae, resident 

 at Chittagong, in a letter dated March 22d 1802, and was accom- 

 panied with a drawing, by which it appears that the animal from 

 which my figure (Tab. IV.) was taken was full-grown. 



The Gyall is a species of cow peculiar to the mountains which 

 form the eastern boundary of the province of Chittagong, where 

 it is found running Mild in the woods ; and it is also reared as a 

 domestic animal by the Kookies, or Lunclas, the inhabitants of 

 those hills. It delights to live in the deepest jungles, feeding on 

 the tender leaves and shoots of the brushwood ; and is never met 

 on the plains below, except when brought there. Such of them 

 as have at any time been kept by the gentlemen at Chittagong 

 have always preferred browsing among the thickets on the adja- 

 cent hills to feeding on the grass of the plains. 



It is of a dull heavy appearance, yet of a form that indicates 

 both strength and activity; and approaches nearly to that of 

 the wild buffalo. Its head is set on like the buffalo's, and it 

 carries it much in the same manner, with the nose projecting for- 

 ward ; 



