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description of wliich will be given liereaftev. He lias never 

 been domesticated ; and is, in appearance and disposition, 

 very different from the common gnydl, which has been just 

 described. The natives call him the as'l gaynl in contra- 

 distinction to the gnhay. The Cuds distinguish him by the 

 name o^ sehi, and the Mngs and Barmas by that of p'/ianj; 

 and they consider him, next to the tiger, the most dangerous and very fierce, 

 and the fiercest animal of their forests.' 



Mr. Elliott says: ' I have some gnyals at Mtmnamutty, Brov/se. 

 and, from their mode of feeding, I presume, that they keep 

 on the skirts of the rallies, to enable them to feed on the 

 sides of the mountain, where they can browse. They will 

 not touch grass, if they can find shrubs. 



* While kept at Camer/ah, which is situate in a level Require a hillr 

 country, they used to resort to the tanks, and eat on the '^'^""^'■y* • 

 sides, frequently betaking themselves to the water, to avoid 

 the heat of the sun. However, they became sickly and 

 emaciated, and their eyes suffered much; but, on being sent 

 to the hills, they soon recovered, and are now in a healthy 

 condition. They seem fond of the shade, and are observed 

 in the hot weather to take the turn of the hills, so as to 

 be always sheltered from the sun. They do not wallow iu 

 mud like buffaloes ; but delight in water, and stand in it, 

 during the greatest heat of the day, with the fronts of their 

 heads above the surface. 



I take this opportunity, while treating of a species of ox. Mistake of 

 to notice an errour which crept into Ken's unfinished trans- Ken- and Tur« 

 lation of the animal kingdom in Liunseus's Systeraa Na- '°"' 

 turse; and which has been followed by Doctor Turton ia 

 translating the general system of nature by Linnaeus. Mr. 

 Kerr described and figured, under the name of bos arrtcef 

 an animal, which, notwithstanding the exaggerated de- 

 scription, given on the authority of ' a British officer, who 

 met with one in the woods, in the country above Bengal*,' 

 is evidently nothing else but the wild buffalo, an animal 

 very common throughout Bengal, and known there, and in 

 the neighbouring provinces of Hindosfan, by the name of 

 arna. Though neither fourteen feet high, as Mr. Kerr has 



• Kerr, page 336. 



stated, 



