OF INDIAN BIG GAME 6 



between the town of that name and Lemyne ; shot by Mr. 

 W. Davison, Mr. Hume's collector. Length of horns 14J, 

 girth 13J, tip-to-tip interval 28 inches. This specimen stands 

 No. 3 in Mr. Ward's list. It is mentioned by Blanford as 

 being the only wild gayal with which he was acquainted. 



THE YAK. . 



BOS (POEPHAGUS) GEUNNIENS. 



Bos grunniens, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 71, 1758, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 99, 1766; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 490, 

 1891 ; LydeJcTcer, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 76, 1907 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 437, 1910. 



5. 12. 10. 31. 85. Skull, with horns (fig. 2), Angir- 

 takshin Pass, Kuen-hm Mountains ; shot, in the 'seventies, 



FIG. 2. SKULL AND HOENS OP YAK (Bos \_Poephagus] grunniens). 

 From Ward's Records of Big Game. 



by Mr. A. Dalgleish, who in the early part of that decade was 

 attached to the Central Asian Trading Company, and was 



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