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Kalmiikische kuhe, Georgi Russland, i. 208. 

 Tangutesche kiihe, Pallas, Reise Aus. iii. 126. 

 Bceuf velu, Bruyn. Her Mosc. 120. t. 129. 

 Yack, Desmoul. Diet. Cl. H. N. ii. 368. 



Var. 1 . Noble Yak. Head erect ; hump large ; fur very long, 



nearly reaching the ground ; tail bushy. 

 The Riding Yak, Hoffmeister, Travels Ceylon, <^c., 443. 



Var. 2. Plough Yak. Head dependent ; legs short ; hair short ; 



tail often cut off. 

 The Plough Yak, Hoffmeister, Travels Ceylon, fyc., 441. 



Female, stuffed. Black; tail and middle of back whitish. 

 Thibet. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Var. 3. Hornless Yak. Both sexes without horns. 

 Pallas, Act. Acad. Petrop. 1777, 250. t. 10; Nord. Beytr. f. 1. 

 t. 1 ; cop. Schreb. Saugth. t. 299 B. 



Var. 4. Ghainorik. Larger. 



Ghainorik of the Mongolians and Calmucks, Gmelin; Pallas, 



Act. Acad. Petrop. 1777, 255. 

 Yac, Stewart, Phil. Trans. 1777, Ixvii. 478. 



Var. 5. The Wild Yak. Much larger; the withers of the bulls 



high. 

 Hab. Thibet. Mr. Winterbottom. 



OSTEOLOGY. Skull, t. 4. f. 3, 4. 



Yac of Thibet, Hodgson, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x. 470. t. 1. f. 3, 



skull. 

 Bos grunniens, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 129. t. 10. f. 13, 14. 



Skeleton. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Skull and horns. 



Two skulls of male. Thibet. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Skull of the female, with the horns bent forward at the tip. 

 Thibet. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Skull of the female. Thibet. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Pair of horns of the male, of large size. Thibet. Presented 

 by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Pair of horns of the female, slender, and bent horizontally. 

 Thibet. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



DRAWINGS. 



Drawing of a group of the domestic variety. Hodgson, Icon, 

 ined. B. M. t. 143, copied, with front figure left out, t. 144. 

 Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Drawing of horns. Hodgson, Icon. ined. B, M. t. 145. f. 4. 

 Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



