INDIAN AND BURMESE GAUR 



MEASUREMENTS OF GAUR. 1 



The following is Jerdon's description : " In length it is 

 about 9^ or 10 feet long from the nose to the tip of the 

 tail ; the tail 34 inches long, ranging down a little below 

 the hocks ; the skull is massive, the frontals large, deeply 

 concave, surmounted by a large semi-cylindric crest rising 

 above the base of the horns. There are thirteen pairs of 

 ribs. The head is square, proportionately shorter than in 

 the ox, and the bony frontal ridge is 5 inches above the 

 frontal plane. The muzzle is large and full, and the eyes 

 small, with a full pupil of a pale blue colour. The whole of 

 the head in front of the eyes is covered with a coat of close 

 short hair of a lightish greyish-brown, which below the eyes 

 is darker, approaching almost to black. The muzzle is 

 greyish, and the hair thick and short. The ears are broad 

 and fan-shaped, and the neck which is sunk between the 

 head and back is short, thick, and heavy. Behind the neck, 

 and immediately above the shoulder, rises a fleshy gibbosity 



1 The ears of the Indian bull were much torn and slit, and the tips had 

 disappeared altogether the horns of this bull also were much worn. The 

 ears and horns of the Burmese gaur were quite perfect. F. T. P. 



