THE GAYAL AND TSINE 



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during my thirteen years' wanderings. Whether the bull 

 gayal in the Zoo is a pure one or only a hybrid, he is about 

 as fine a specimen, barring the height, which is somewhat less, 

 as is to be found in the East. 



At the foot of the Bhootan range wild hybrids are 

 plentiful and very savage. The Bhooteahs and other hill 

 people bring down tame ones to the fair at Oodulgheery in 

 Darrung, and Europeans often buy them. If you transport 

 them to Shillong at once they will live and thrive moderately, 

 but if kept in the plains in the hot weather they die very soon. 

 They don't give much milk, but what little they do give is 

 very rich. I had a pure-bred gayal cow and her bull calf; 

 they were very handsome ; the cow strangled herself acci- 

 dentally, and the calf died. I have seen numbers dead of 

 the murrain, of which Assam is never free, but I never shot 

 but two, and those fell to a right and left. 



THE TSINE, OR BOS SONDAICUS 



The wild cattle extend from the hill tracts of Chittagong 

 downwards, and are found in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the 



BURMESE WILD BULL. 



Celebes. Father Barbe, a learned missionary, wrote to Mr. 

 Blyth that the gaur, gayal, and tsine were to be found within a 



