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tinctly, and I have never shot one which was not. Further, the villagers declare 
there is a third species, the Thamin Pyouktan (spotted) which is larger than 
any of the others, 
T never heard of Thamin in this district going into the hills, or even into 
thick jungle; in the cold season they live amongst the long grass—spear grass 
for choice—and thin jungle, and later they may be seen quite in the open 
much the same as black buck. Just now they lie in the growing crops, 
As regards the shedding of horns I saw many good heads up to August 15, 
but could find none on the 25th, though I heard of some being seen much 
later. 
The span of head No.1 given by Captain Richardson (39}’) seems to me 
unusually wide considering the length of the horn itself, and this is even more 
marked in No. 7 where the two horns totalling about 54” diverge no less than 
36”, The heads obtainable here are not nearly so flat as these. 
There must be several members of the Society who have shot, or otherwise 
come into the possession of, heads, and some more measurements of such 
would prove of interest. 
CHARLES F. GILBERT, m.1.c.z. 
Monywa, 28th October, 1893. 
P.8.—Since writing the above I have got a couple of so-called Thamin Wet, 
one with the primary (or it may be secondary) scimitar-shaped horn, and one 
with ten points, 
Both had decided brown coats very different to the yellow of the Thamin 
Wan, but neither of them approched blackness in the least degree. 
Natives, here as well as in India, have a habit of saying what they believe 
you wish them to say, and.it took a great deal of cross-examination before I 
could obtain the admission that in the cold weather Thamin Wan were not 
exactly plentiful, and in fact they could not say for certain that they had ever 
seen them during that season, but I have now not the smallest doubt that the 
Thamin Wet of the cold season develops into the Thaman Wan of the hot 
weather, and further that the blackness has little to do with age, being merely 
due to the full development of the winter coat, 
I have noted the differences between the Wet and Wan as thicker horns and 
longer hair for the former, and the former difference is at once explained by 
the fact that before he sheds his winter coat, he has begun to rub the 
corrugations off his horns, 
T have one head with smooth horns which must have become so by constant 
rubbing, as the corrugations are ducts through which the upper portions are 
developed after the lower is formed. 
On this subject the remark made by Captain Richardson that “ the horns aie 
perfect in March ” is not quite clear ; I got a head last March, and though the 
