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on what a man understands by that word. " Smoothbore," an 

 excellent authority, describes dew-lap as follows: "It originally 

 meant the loose fold descending from the chest, which, when 

 the animal was grazing, swept the dew ; thus in Midsummer 

 Nights Dream hounds are described as 'dew-lapped like 

 Thessalian bulls ' ; but in the humped Indian cattle the fold 

 extends from the throat downwards, and in the Mysore 

 draught bullocks and in the Brahmini bulls is enormous ; 

 whilst in the ordinary village cattle the development is small." 

 He also adds, "A planter of many years' experience in 



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Travancore, and a keen, observant sportsman, states that in 

 some examples the gaur have scarcely any dew-lap, and that 

 in others it is strongly developed. So marked is this differ- 

 ence, that the natives divide them into two castes, calling one 

 'Katia Madoo' or jungle cow, and the other ' Kat-ereiny ' or 

 jungle buffalo." 



The late Mr. Bartlett of the Zoo wrote that the one 

 which was in the Zoo for about a year and a half had 

 a well-developed one. But Elliot, Jerdon, Campbell (the old 

 Forest Ranger), Sterndale, and most authorities have said 

 that the loose skin did not amount to a dew-lap, so I think we 

 may conclude that some have, and others have it not. I have 

 given the measurements of an old bull shot in the Nirmal 

 jungles, and those of a bull and cow in Lower Burma. 



