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add the important fact (which of itself will be sufficient 

 to constitute a specific difference between the Gaur and 

 the Gayal), namely, that in the skeleton of the Gaur there 

 are only thirteen pairs of ribs, whilst the skeleton of the 

 Gayal possesses fourteen pairs. This fact I have ascer- 

 tained from an examination of both the skeletons ; that 

 of the Gaur in the museum of the Zoological Society, and 

 that of the Gayal, in the possession of Mr. Bartlett, 

 Russell Street, Covent Garden. (See p. 68.) 



The skeleton of the Gaur just refered to, strikingly 

 confirms Dr. Traill's account of the elevated dorsal ridge 

 of this animal ; several of the dorsal vertebrae measuring, 

 with their spinous processes, upwards of seventeen inches 

 each, the longest being twenty inches and a half. 



The Gaur, from which this skeleton was taken, was 

 killed at Nicecond, November 8, 1843. 



There is another fine specimen of the skull and horns 

 of the Gaur, in the Museum of the Zoological Society, 

 taken from an animal killed by Lieut. Nelson, on the 

 Neilsburry Hills, Salem district. This animal measured 

 nineteen hands and half an inch at the shoulder. 



Dimensions of the Figure in the British Museum : 



Ft. In. 

 Length from nose to insertion of tail, measuring 



over the forehead and along the back .11 

 Height at the highest part of the dorsal ridge 5 7 

 Height at the croup . . . . . .54 



Length of the tail 31 



In Mr. D. Johnson's Sketches, the Gaur is described 

 as a kind of wild bullock, of prodigious size, residing in 

 the Ramghur district, not well known to Europeans. 

 Mr. Johnson says : " I have never obtained a sight of them, 



