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DESCRIPTION OFTIIEYAKOFTARTARY, 



CALLED SOORJ- GOK 



OR THE BUSHY- TAILED BULL OF TIBET. 



By .Lieutenant Samuel Turner. 



r TPHE Tak of Tartary> called Sooray-Goy in Hin-> 

 -*- dojian, and which I term the bushy-tailed bull 

 o{Tibet y is about the height of an Englijb bull, which 

 he resembles in the figure of the body, head, and legs. 

 I could discover between them no essential difference, 

 except only, that the Tak is covered all over with a 

 thick coat of long hair. The head is rather short, 

 crowned with two smooth round horns, that, tapering 

 from the setting-on, terminate in sharp points, arch 

 inwardly* and near the extremities are a little turned 

 .back ; the ears are small ; the forehead appears pro- 

 minent, being adorned with much curling hair; the 

 eyes are full and large ; the nose smooth and convex ; 

 the nostrils small ; the neck short, describing a cur- 

 vature nearly equal both above and below ; the withers 

 high and arched ; the rump low. Over the shoulders 

 rises a bunch, which at first sight would seem to be the 

 same kind of exuberance peculiar to the cattle of Hin- 

 dost an ; but in reality it consists jn the superior length 

 of the hair only, which as well as that along the ridge of 

 the back to the setting-on of the tail, grows long and 

 erect, but not harsh. The tail is composed of a pro- 

 digious quantity of long flowingglossy hair descending 

 to the hock, and is so extremely well furnished, that 



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