Game Animals of India, etc. 



area on the forehead ; whether, however, this is' 

 anything more than an individual peculiarity, I am 

 unable to say. Very noticeable is a band ot tawny 

 hair immediately above the naked portion of the 

 muzzle, which is always light-coloured in gaur. A 

 trace of this tawny band is observable in the plate 

 accompanying a notice by Dr. W. T. Blanford of 

 a young bull from the Malay Peninsula;^ but it is 

 wanting in the two mounted Indian gaur in the British 

 Museum, in which the whole of the hairy part of the 

 muzzle is dark-coloured, with the exception of a small 

 streak on each lip. 



It may also be mentioned that the general colour 

 of the hair of the Burmese head (both in the dark 

 and light areas) apparently differs somewhat from that 

 of Indian examples, although I have not had an 

 opportunity of making an exact comparison in this 

 respect. The horns, too, are distinctly different in 

 appearance from those of Indian gaur, being decidedly 

 peculiar. In old Indian bull gaur it is generally, if not 

 invariably, the right horn that has its tip worn away 

 by the animal constantly using this horn more than its 

 fellow. In the Burmese specimen, on the other hand, 

 it is the left horn that is thus worn ; what value to 

 attach to this difference it is difficult to determine. 



The name Bos gaurus readei was suggested by 

 myself for the Burmese gaur in the Zoologist for 1903, 

 on the evidence of the head shown in fig. 5. This 

 race is characterised by its tall stature, dark colour 

 (nearly black), the more thickly haired and fringed ears, 

 the presence of a well-developed dewlap carrying a tuft 

 or fringe of long hair in the adult, the greater downward 

 extension of the tawny colour on the forehead, and 

 sometimes by a tawny band round the lower part of 

 the jaw immediately above the muzzle. 



If the pyoung, or Burmese gaur, is separated from 

 the Indian animal, there can be no reasonable doubt 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1890. 

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