THE GAYAL 



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with which the toils of the sportsman can be rewarded. When killed, the gaur affords 

 excellent meat, the great delicacy being the marrow bones roasted on the camp fire. 



THE GAYAL (Bos frontalis} 



Well known for many years as existing in a semi-domesticated condition in the 

 hilly districts of Northeastern India, it is but recently that the gayal has been deter- 



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COW GAYAL. 



(One-twenty-second natural size.) 



mined to be a truly wild species, although we have yet no definite information of 

 its habits or the limits of its range in this condition. 



The gayal, or as it is frequently termed the mithan, is nearly allied to the gaur, 

 from which, however, it differs in several important particulars. In the first place, 

 it is a somewhat smaller animal, with proportionately-shorter limbs, a minor devel- 

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