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There is also another species of animal in 

 Ramghur, called Gour, a kind of wild bullock of 

 a prodigious size, not well known to Europeans. 

 I have never obtained a sight of them, but have 

 often seen the prints of their feet, the impression 

 of one of them covering as large a space as a com- 

 mon china plate. According to the account which 

 I received from a number of persons, they are 

 much larger than the largest of our oxen, are of 

 a light brown colour, with short thick horns, and 

 inhabit the thickest covers ; they keep together in 

 herds, and a herd of them are always near the 

 Luggo hill. They are also in the heavy jungles 

 between Ramghur and Nagpore. 



On reading the 8th Vol. of Asiatic Researches, 

 since the preceding sheets have been printed, I 

 have met with an account of Gay ah, by H. T. 

 Colebrooke, Esq., which appear, by his descrip- 

 tion, to be animals of the same species as the Gour, 

 noticed above, but not of so large a size, or 

 so vicious. The animal described by a Bengal 

 officer, and introduced by Mr. Kerr, in his trans- 

 lation of Linnaeus's Sy sterna Natures, under the 

 appellation of Bos Arna, appears to me to be the 

 Gour of Ramghur, which Mr. Colebrooke thinks 

 should be rejected from all systems of Zoology, 



