The Gaur, or Indian Bison 



text-figure. They measured 24 inches in length along 

 the outer curve, 13^ in basal circumference, and 13 

 between the tips. 



Being essentially forest -dwelling animals, gaur are 



Fig. 4. — Skull and Horns of a Cow Gaur, from a specimen in the possession of 

 Mr. A. O Hume. 



not, for the most part, found in the tall grass-jungles 

 of the Ganges plain, which form the home of the 

 Indian buffalo and rhinoceros, although to a certain 

 extent they enter this tract along the foot of the 

 Himalaya. Their ordinary resorts are the tracts of 

 hill-forests occurring in many parts of India, Burma, 



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