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a distance one might easily be mistaken for the other, 

 for the colouration is the same. They frequent similar 

 ground, and are probably cousins several times removed. 

 It is said that they, the gayal, have been seen in the 

 north grazing not far from the wild yak. I have seen 

 very many of these cattle wild, tame thoroughbreds, 

 and tame hybrids although I never shot but two, 

 and that was upon the only time I followed them 

 up. The bull was almost the exact counterpart of the 

 one in the Zoo, which is as fine an animal of its kind as 

 can be found. Hybrids between these wild cattle and 

 zebus or Indian tame cattle have run wild, and are 

 fairly plentiful in the lower ranges of the Bhootan 

 Hills. As the two I killed fell to double shots right 

 and left, there is no tale of adventure to tell. Many 

 that have died of the murrain I have seen on the 

 borders of Assam. 



THE TSINE (BOS SONDAICUS). 



These wild cattle extend from the hill tracts of 

 Chittagong downwards, and are found in Java, 

 Sumatra, Borneo and the Celebes. It is a wary 

 animal, grazes in the open quins or plains, and is not 

 easy to approach. Although a sacred animal according 

 to their religion, the Burmese shikaries, who are 

 looked upon as damned by their co-religionists, 

 because they take life, sit up in trees and pot these 

 kine as they pass by, and sell the jerked meat to the 

 villagers, who do not hesitate to buy it. These are 

 true cattle, very handsome, of a deep red (the very 

 old bulls get almost black in their second childhood), 

 with white rings round the eyes, white under the 



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