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range on Western Ghats, both in the forests at the foot of the hills, but 
more especially in the upland forests and the wooded country beyond 
the crest of the Ghats. The Animally hills, the Neilgherries, Wynaad, 
Coorg, the Bababooden hills, the Mahableshwar hills, are all favourite 
haunts of this fine animal. North of this, it occurs to my own knowledge 
in the jungles on the Taptee river and the neighbourhood, and north of 
the Nerbudda ; a few on the deeper recesses of the Vindhian mountains. ~ 
On the eastern side of the peninsula it is found in the Pulney and Din- 
digul hills, the Shandamungalum range, the Shervaroys, and some of the 
hill ranges near Vellore and the borders of Mysore. North of this, the 
Gaveus gaurus, 
forest being too scanty, it does not occur till the Kistna and Godavery 
rivers ; and hence it is to be found in suitable spots all along the range 
of Eastern Ghats to near Cuttack and Midnapore, extending west far 
into Central India, and northwards towards the edge of the great 
plateau which terminates south of the Gangetic valley. According to 
Hogdson it also occurs in the Himalayan Terai, probably however only 
towards the eastern portion, and here it is rare, for I have spoken to many 
sportsmen who have hunted in various parts of the Terai, from Sikhim— 
to Rohilkund, and none have ever come across the gaur at the foot of 
the Himalayas.” —‘ Mam. of Ind.,’ p. 303. (See also Appendix C, p. 530.) 
In the Central provinces the gaur is found in several parts of the 
