438 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
tail; 2 feet 24 inches ; from between horns to nose, 1 foot 34 inches 
(Major H. M. Biddulph). Weight about 1140 lbs. Wild yak are 
uniformly blackish brown in colour, any trace of white indicating 
domestication, and probably cross-breeding. 
Distribution.—The plateau of Tibet, part of the Kansu province of 
China and Northern Ladak, at elevations between about 14,000 
and 20,000 feet. The peculiar grunting cry from which the animal 
takes its name is developed only in the domesticated breeds. 
ane, eee Locality Owner: 
39 ? Lucknow Museum. 
-38? 184 264 Kuenlun Mts. A. O. Hume (shot by late 
A. Dalgleish). 
384 / 19 Do. British Museum (Hume Collec- 
tion). 
354 15 16 ? BE. L. Phelps: 
354 143 17 Tibet . St. George Littledale. 
34 12 303 Ladak Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
33 16 18 N.W. Tibet Capt. S. H. Charrington. 
-—32% 134 19 Tibet Capt. B. H. Shaw-Stewart. 
322 164 18? Do. Major H. M. Biddulph. 
—32¢ 14 174 Do. Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. 
324 143 174 Do. P. F. Hadow. 
323 16 25 Do. Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
324 14 14} Do. Capt. R. Longstaff. 
32 13g 154 Do. H.C. V., Hunter: 
32 144 9 Do. I. Morse. 
32 16 17 Do. P. Church. 
32 15% 212 Do. Capt. D. L. R. Lorimer. 
—31g 144 18} Chang Chenmo . Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. 
314 15% 174 Chinese Tibet ~ Capt. J. A. Stewart Balmain. 
31} 154 1133 Do. Major H. W. Codrington. 
314 144 162 Do. Major E. F. Coates. 
31 14 Do. Col. F. C. Lister-Kay. 
31 134 14 Ladak Arnold Pike. 
31 16} 172 Kumaon E. R. Neave. 
— Owner’s measurements. 
