SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



on the neck and b^ck, very woolly, whitish and black ; tail 

 with very long hair ; sometimes hornless. 



Poephagus, Mlian. B. Grunniens, Pallas and Auctor. 

 Sarlyk Ukur and Yak, Tartar. Ghau-nouk and Gaw- 

 dashti, Persian. Soora Goy, Indee. Si-nyn, Chinese. 



Icon. Shaw's Zool. Trans. Soc. of Calcutta. Nobis. 

 Pallas. 



Habitat. Mountains of Central Asia. 



897. 9. B. Gavceus (the Gayal.) Adult male, four feet 

 nine inches high, nine feet six inches long ; horns strong, 

 short, distant, lateral, compressed, turned upwards and 

 forward ; head broad and flat, narrowing suddenly on the 

 chafFron; ridge of the frontals covered with frizzled white 

 hair; eyes not large; ears long, broad, turned side- 

 ways ; neck slender ; a middle-sized dewlap, Tringed with 

 long hair ; ridge of the withers much extending half way 

 down the back ; tail to the houghs : tuft at the end ; 

 general colour brown, with some white about the feet. 



B. Gayal, Linn. Trans. Gauvera? in Ceylon. Shial 

 (the wild) and Seloc of the Cucis. Catin r ^;^ Siam. 

 J'hongnuaht, of the Mugs. Nunel of the Birmas. Gabay, 

 in the Shastras. Bos Silhetanus, Cwo. 



Icon. Transactions of Asiat. Soc. Calcutta. Nobis. 



Habitat. The mountain forests cast of the Bunampoo- 

 tra, Silhet, Chatgoon. — Ceylon? 



Obs. For the fossil species, referrible to the Bisontine 

 group, we refer to the text. 



Sub-genus III.— Taurus. Forehead square, from the 

 orbits to the occipital crest, somewhat concave, not convex or 

 arched, as in the former ; the horns rising from the sides of 

 the salient edge or crest of the frontals ; the plain of the occi- 

 put forming an acute angle with the frontal and of quadran- 

 gular form ; the curve of the horns outwards, upwards and 



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