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Another genus* is thus described : Horns depressed at the bus,., dinvied outwards, posh-rim- 

 the hinder ridge of the frontal bone, which is often very pro.,, incut, recurved ut tlie tips; withers hi-d, 

 keeled, supported by the spinous processes of the dorsal vertebra, and suddenly lower behind. There 

 are three species, which Professor Lundevall regards as sub-varieties of a ninety of th,- common bull. 

 We can only touch on one of the species. 



THE GAYAL.f 



Tins animal is nearly the size and the shape of an English bull. It has no uiauc nor hump, but a 

 considerable elevation over the withers. The tail is short ; the body is covered with a tolerable coat 

 of straight, dark-browu hair; on the belly it is lighter coloured ; and the legs and face are sometimes 



<;AYAJ, co.v. 



v.-liiie. Its cry i.s said to resemble that of the buffalo. Tin; gayal is found wild in the range <- r 

 mountains that form the eastern boundary of the provinces of Aracan, Chittagong, Tippera, and .Sillict. 

 Tlie Lunetas, a race of people inhabiting the hills immediately to the eastward of Chittagoiig, Lave 

 In-rds of them in a domesticated state. 



A sub-tribe^ of the tribe liovina, and family bouida', now comes In-fore us, including the Common 

 Sheep, and allied species. Dr. J. E. Gray thus describes this family : Forehead flat or concave. 

 The horns are more or less spiral, more wide than deep at the base, and slightly annulated in front. Tlie 

 females are often hornless. The skull has a more or less deep-rounded snborbital pit, without any 

 fissure; the masseteric ridge ascending high before the orbit; the auditory bul'.a small; the Uui- 

 occipital flat, more or less expanded anteriorly by the extension of the anterior pair of tubercles, the 

 posterior ones small ; the cutting teeth are nearly equal-sized and shelving, and there are no supple- 

 mental lobes to tlie grinders. The hoofs are triangular, and, being shallow behind, they have distinct 

 interdigital fossie. -Males emitting no stench. 



Bibo.-. 



f Bo.i frontalis. Lambert. li. gaj one. CoV, rooke 



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