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THE OX TRIBE. 



THE TAME OR DOMESTIC GAYAL. 



The representation of the Gayal here given was taken 

 from a living specimen in the Zoological Gardens, 1846. 



The scanty information I was able to glean concerning 

 it, consists in its having been procured at Chitagong, and 

 shipped, as a commercial speculation, from Calcutta for 

 London, in January 1844, when about two years and a 

 half old. It remained in the Zoological Gardens till the 

 summer of 1846, when it died from inflammation of the 

 bowels, brought on chiefly by eating too much green 

 food. 



I had the above particulars from Mr. Bartlett, natu- 

 ralist, &c., who had been commissioned to dispose of it. 

 He preserved the skeleton, which he kindly allowed me 

 to examine, and from which I made the sketches of the 

 skull and horns, which appear on the following page. 



The skeleton has fourteen pairs of ribs. 



