THE YAK. 



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in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, London. The 

 following figure (taken from the ' Oriental Annual') is so 

 much like the portrait of Warren Hastings's Yak, that it 

 might almost be taken for a copy of it. 



There is the skin of a Yak in the Zoological Museum, 

 which coincides pretty nearly with the foregoing descrip- 

 tion. There is also a stuffed specimen of a female in the 

 British Museum. 



Like the European Bison, the skeleton of the Yak 

 has fourteen pairs of ribs. Period of gestation not re- 

 corded. 



