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shoots of bamboos, and fruits of trees, but prefer grass. 

 In the hot weather the engdain forest is a sure find for 

 tsaine. They occasionally go into the foot-hills, if 

 there are any adjoining, to sleep during the day, 

 descending again about 4.30 p.m., and returning at 

 about 9 A.M. ; but I have found tsaine feeding in the 

 middle of the day in the height of the hot weather, and 

 have also seen them sleeping in the engdain, under the 

 sparse shade of a big in-tree. I have never found tsaine 

 high up in the hills, and doubt if they go much over 

 2000 feet above sea-level. In the rains, when the new 

 bamboo-shoots are sprouting, they leave the engdain 

 entirely, and frequent bamboo-forest to feed, like many 

 other animals in Burma, on these shoots. They feed 

 mostly at night, but also at intervals throughout the 

 day, and do not seem to mind heat at all. They are 

 fond of frequenting salt-licks ; as well as licks of a 

 peculiar light-grey earth (niyehnan)^ the "smelling-earth" 

 of the Burmese, usually found in the banks of dry nalas 

 in the engdain, into which the tsaine scrape holes with 

 their tongues. Bulls, especially solitary ones, are very 

 fond of butting down young trees along the path they 

 may be travelling, and the strength exerted to break 

 some of these must be considerable. I have never 

 heard a tsaine calling like a gaur, and the Burmese say 

 they make no sound, except the snort of alarm or 

 warnina;- This is very similar to that of the gaur, but 

 more prolonged and only a single instead of a double 

 snort. On alarming a herd more than one snort may 

 be noticed, but these are probably made by different 

 individuals. I once came across a young tsaine asleep 

 in a patch of unburnt grass in engdain-jungle ; which 

 bolted in the direction numerous footsteps indicated a 

 herd had travelled. This was in May, and the animal 

 was probably very young, and had been hidden by its 

 mother while the herd was grazing. As all, or nearly 

 all, the herds seen in April and May had young calves 

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