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written all I know on the subject ,to Mr. KoechKn, and perhaps it will 

 appear in connection with the game register he is keeping. 



The measurements of the largest pair of horns of Gavaeus (jaurua in the 

 possession of the Bombay Natural History Society is given in Vol. XV 

 No. 4, page 706. 



Since preparing this paper 1 find that Col. Pollock wrote in the ' Zoolon 

 gist ' an article in which I see that he did me the honour to quote me, 

 extensively on the Gaur, his whole article is copied into Vol. Xll, No. 1 of 

 the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, where some startling 

 measurements of the Burmese Gaur as compared with the Indian are 

 given on page 193." 



In the jungle close to where Mr. Martin lived for several years a herd 

 of about 40 Gaur made their head-quarters and so he had ample oppor- 

 tunity of observing their habits, which he writes of as follows : — 



"As regards habits, I can only give you my own observations, which are 

 limited to the High Range, and do not extend even to the Cardamom Hills, 

 or ghauts. You will find that their habits become modified in the Mysore 

 Bamboo jungles described by Sanderson, and for the Central Provinces 

 Sterndale gives descriptions. The specimen-hunting American, Hornaday, 

 describes what he observed on the Anamallays. 



For several years when I lived in the Old Sothapara Bungalow, a herd of 

 about 40 lived in the jungle opposite, in what is now Gundumallay Estate. 

 They were very seldom disturbed, and their habits v/ere very regular ; they 

 used to appear in the evening any time after 3 p.m. and graze up the grass 

 hills out of sight and return between 6 and 7 a.m. in the morning. But 

 much depended on the weather ; for, sometimes they would remain out, 

 much later, and on some occasions I have known them not to return to the. 

 jungle for several days at a time. They fed mostly on the short grass to 

 be foinid at 7,000 to 8,000 ft. above the sea, and also on the course grasses 

 to be found at the edges of the jungle. Inside the jungle they browsed on 

 '' Kurunja " {Stobilanthes) and bit oft' the heads of saplings of manjr sorts, 

 but more, I think, in idleness than for the sake of food. The Mauritius 

 and Guinea grass I had at Sothapara was a great attraction to those 

 individuals who had once tasted it. Sometimes the bulls were with the 

 herd and sometimes not ; calves of all ages there always seemed to be, the 

 young ones being red in colour. The older bulls seemed to wander further 

 a field than the herd did, but they always were within a few miles. Major 

 Rodon got a fine 37 inches head which he called 'Solitary,' and of coursb 

 it was quite by itself when he shot it, but there was only the 'Gundu' of 

 Gundumallay between it and the herd. Mr. Tollemache got a very nicu 

 no-dewlapped bull, with a detachment of the herd which had separated 

 from the main body as they sometimes did. Mr. W. D. Martin oot a. 38. 

 incher up in Benson's Valley, quite by itself, at a time when we did notj 



