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is some danger of being wounded by their 

 quills when they rnsh out. But the general 

 idea of their having the power of throwing 

 their quills, is erroneous. They can only 

 erect them as a defence, and sometimes in the 

 act of doing this quickly, they fall out, but 

 not with sufficient force to cause any serious 

 injury. 



On reading the 8th. Vol. of Asiatic Re- 

 searches, since the preceeding sheets have 

 been printed, I have met with an account of 

 Gayals, by H. T. Colebrooke Esq r . which 

 appear by his description, to be animals of the 

 same species as the gour noticed at page 56, 

 but not of so large a size, or so vicious. The 

 animal described by a Bengal Officer, and in- 

 troduced by Mr. Kerr, in his translation of 

 Linnaeus's Systema Naturce, under the appel- 

 lation of Bos Arna appears to me to be the 

 gour of Ramghur, which Mr. Colebrooke 

 thinks should be rejected from all systems of 

 Zoology, merely from his supposing that they 

 have mistaken the wild buffalo for it, owing 



