GAUR BISON GR 
Bull shot on the 30th October 1893 on the Syhadris or Western 
Ghauts bordering on Sawant Wadi, Bombay Presidency. Measure- 
ments very carefully taken :— 
ft. sin. 
Height at shoulder between uprights 6 1 Horn measurements (outside curve), ae 
56 dorsal ridge, highest point 6 6 right horn ; F 2 84 
Length from tip of nose to insertion of Do. left horn . 2 SF 
tail between uprights QO. 2 Greatest width across sweep of horns. 3 4 
Length of tail . : F é 2 95 | From tip to tip of horns along inside 
Girth of body behind shoulders . 8 44 curve and across forehead : 5 5 i 
»» foreleg above knee I 4% | Between tips : ‘ ; 5 2 8 
»» at middle neck 3 104 | Weight of right horns 63 lbs. Weight 
», Of foreleg at elbow 2 8% of left horns 64 Ibs. (Lieut.-Col. 
Breadth of forehead i 2 L. L. Fenton.) 
Measurements of a solitary bull bison killed by Mr. A. T. 
Mackenzie, on the North Travancore Hills, some 3 miles from the 
Periyar Dam :— 
ft) in| . ins 
Vertical height from toe to dorsal | Greatest width across from outside to oe 
ridge : ‘ : OOF) outsider. : : 3 14 
Length in a straight line from frontal Left horn round outside curve 2, 24 
bone to root of tail 7 rot |} 54 ss inside curve I 104 
Length of tail : : . 2iih | Fa on base, clear of hair I 52 
Face, from frontal bone to end of | Right horn round outside curve. 2 3: 
nose , : 2 it = 7s inside curve I 114 
Girth behind shoulder 8 8 es ft base 1 64 
,, of foreleg below elbow 2 It Tip to tip, round curve and across 
Smallest girth below knee. Os forehead : : : : 6 5s 
Length of foreleg outside body 2 54 | Tip to tip, straight . : ‘ - I 10% 
These measurements were taken with a new Chesterman’s 50-inch 
tape (checked and found correct) between verticals carefully plumbed. 
This bison was in the prime of health and condition, with horns hardly 
at all worn. 
A male gaur shot by Major-General Alexander A. A. Kinloch, 
and measured by him, was 5 feet 5 inches at shoulder. 
Distribution—A\ll the great hilly forest-tracts of the Indian Peninsula, 
Assam, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula, in the forests at the 
foot of the Himalayas as far west as Nepal. South of the Ganges 
it exists in suitable tracts in Chutra, Nagpur, Orissa, and the 
Northern Cercars, the Central Provinces, Hyderabad territories, 
Mysore, and throughout the Western Ghauts, wherever it has not 
been exterminated (W. T. Blanford). 
