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; CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



FIG. 1. SKULL AND HORNS OF Cow GAUR (Bos [Bibos"] gaurus). 

 From Ward's Records of Big Game. 



THE GAYAL. 



BOS (BlBOS) FRONTALIS. 



Bos frontalis, Lambert, Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. vii, pp. 57, 302, 1804 ; 

 Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 487, 1891 ; LydeJcker, 

 Game Animals of India, etc. p. 64, 1907 ; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 446, 1910. 



Although long regarded as a distinct species, there is no 

 reasonable doubt that the gayal is merely a domesticated 

 breed of the gaur, some herds of which have reverted to a 

 wild condition. Unfortunately the name frontalis antedates 

 gaurus. 



4. 12. 10. 31. 88. Skull, with horns (fig. 1). Tenasserim, 



