" previously alluded to the wonderful and extraordinarily quiet 

 " mauuer in which these gigautic animals noiselessly move through 

 " the forest when trying to avoid observation or danger. This 

 " animal, we in particular noticed, crept through the jungle and 

 " almost gained her point, namely, to escape from us in the direction 

 " the herd had taken ; and though we had been watching for her 

 " slightest movement for many minutes, we neither saw nor heard 

 " the least sign of her, till she made a rush at us to drive us out 

 " of the way ; but she did not make good her charge, coming only 

 " as far as the bank of the path within a few feet of us, when a 

 " shot turned her and she bolted, and then we found that a young 

 " one was with her. Yet both these animals had been moving 

 " parallel to us within a few paces distance without our distinguish^ 

 " ing a foot-fall or even the brushing through the bushes, which 

 " the movement of such large bodies would naturally create ; all 

 " was still as death." 



No- 72- Gavaeus or Bos Sondaicus. 



JERDON, No. 238, PAGE 307 ; THE BANTING OR 



BURMAH WILD-COW. 



Although I have been for many years in Burmah, I have only 

 seen two specimens of Bos Sondaicus. The first, I saw for a few 

 moments ; when I was shooting near the Yomah range of moun- 

 tains, west of the station of Tonghoo, I could only get a hasty 

 glimpse, not sufficient to warrant a shot, as the animal dashed into 

 cover, but it appeared to me to be far lighter in form and more 

 active and elegant than bos-gaurus. 



I saw the other at Rangoon ; it was a very beautiful calf, I think 

 about 6 or 8 months old, the property of Sir Arthur Phayre, who 

 sent it to England, but I believe that it died on the voyage. If I 

 mistake not, a former specimen which he sent home reached 

 England in safety and was figured in the Illustrated Neivs* I 

 have lost the notes taken at the time that Sir Arthur Phayre 

 kindly sent the calf for my inspection, but remember that I was 

 struck with the peculiarly deer-like expression, eyes, ears, and 



* This is probably the one said, by Jerdon, page 307, to be living in the London 

 Zoological Gardens VAGRANT. 



