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somewhat nilgai-like markings of the young animal, which was 

 very gentle and full of frolic, but appeared most impatient of heat, 

 as indeed all forest animals are. 



When I was in Rangoon, W. Theobold, Esq., Geological Sur- 

 vey, gave me a very fine skull of Bos Sondaicus, which I have since 

 made over to the Madras Museum and, as it has there been placed 

 near a head of the gaur, the distinctive absence, in the former of 

 the large frontal crest which in the latter is, vide Jerdon, page 302, 

 " semi-cylindric and rising above the base of the horns," is very 

 clearly shown. 



This peculiar formation of the skull is, I think, mentioned by 

 Mr. Bly th in his catalogue of the mammals in the Calcutta Museum ; 

 it is exceedingly well-indicated in the photograph from which the 

 accompanying illustration has been copied and which was taken for 

 me by Messrs. Nicholas and Curths, the well-known photographers 

 of Madras and Ootacamund. 



Jerdon remarks, vide page 307, that the Banteng wants the dew- 

 lap, and resembles the gaur more than the gayal, that the young 

 and the cow are red, and that it is the " tsoing" of the Burmese, 

 the gaur being the " pyoung? 



No- 73Manis. 



JERDON, No. 241, PAGE 314 ; PANGOLIN OR SCALY ANT-EATER. 

 I have already, at page 24 of these notes, mentioned that, I saw 

 a large piece of the scaly hide of the Indian variety of this animal 

 taken out of the stomach of a man-eating tiger, to whom this in- 

 digestible delicacy was probably not more trying than truffles would 

 be to his slayer. 



I can corroborate almost every word of Mr. Elliot's description 

 of the manis at page 315 of Jerdon. 



Either this species of the pangolin, or more probably the next, 

 I had not at the time any good description of the animal to refer to, 

 appeared to be very abundant at Rangoon, and specimens were often 

 caught near the barracks by soldiers who were said to be converts 

 to the ideas, mentioned at page 315, as to the mineral diet and the 



