OF OX, NAMED GAYa'l. 521 



of the day, with the front of their heads above 

 the surfoce. 



-^ Each cow yields from two and a half, to about 

 four strs, of milk *, which is rich, sweet, and al- 

 most as thick as cream ; it is of a high flavour, and 

 makes excellent butter.' 



Information, decisive of the question, whether 

 the Grayal engender with the common Indian bull, 

 has been received from Mr. Bird, at Dacca; who 

 *■ having brought a domesticated female Gaj/al from 

 *■ Chittagong to that place, and not being able to 

 ' procure a male Gayal at Dacca, directed a common 

 ' bull I to be presented to her, which the female 

 ' received, upon being blinded by a cloth thrown 



* over her eyes : the issue was a cow resembling 

 ' mostly the Gayal mother ; and from that cow, 

 i> impregnated by a bull of the same common breed, 



* another cow was produced, which also had grown 

 ^ up and was in calf by a common bull, at the 

 ' date of Mr. Bird's letter.' 



Mr. Dick communicated the following answer 

 from Silhet. 



* Not being able to procure, here, any satisfac- 

 tory information respecting the Gayal, I trans- 

 mitted questions to my Vakil at Cachlidr (having 

 understood, that those animals had been sent hi- 

 ther, from that place,) and desired him to obtain 

 the most correct information on the subject. 



* From five to eight pounds. 



t Of the breed named DesiouU. It is a Zebu of the common 

 kind, found in tlie middle districts of Bengal, 



