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smoother, and less branched ; the brow-antler especially is more 

 elongated ; and the crown is usually bifid, or with but a slight third 

 prong, instead of being strongly trifid, or in some instances with even 

 a fourth large coronal prong ; but I have seen southern examples of 

 intermediate character, and one of the largest size which was well 

 elongated. Col. C. S. Guthrie lately assured me that lie had possessed 

 a large Munnipur pair of horns which were quite single or unbranched, 

 and the brow-antler in a continuous line with the beam.* This is 

 an exaggeration of the ordinary Munnipur character of horn. Mr. 

 Hodgson's O. dimorjpne I consider exceedingly doubtful as having 

 been captured north or west of the Brahmaputra. 



To Col. Phayre, we are further indebted for some loose horns of 

 (Burmese) Bos gaurtis ; and for (now in all) three skulls of bulls 

 of B. sondaicus, all from Pegu, and an imperfect skin of a cow: the 

 latter being of a bright chesnut-dun colour, and exhibiting the 

 characteristic white patch on the buttocks. 



As regards the former species, the Gaour seems to attain even a 

 higher development in the Burmese countries than in India ; not 

 unfrequently, it would seem, attaining to 19 hands from the summit 

 of the elevated dorsal ridge ; and the horns, generally, are much 

 more robust and considerably shorter, in both sexes, than in Indian 

 Gaours.f A remarkably fine skull, with horns, of the latter (minus the 

 lower jaw) in the Society's museum weighs just 30 lbs. ; an equally 

 fine skull of the Burmese race (minus the lower jaw), belonging to 

 Col. A. Fytche, (Commissioner of the Martaban and Tenasserim 

 provinces,) weighs 34 lbs. : both skulls of highly developed bulls, of 

 course. From what I remember of a fine bull-skull, from the mainland 

 near Singapore, I think that the horns were longer, as in the Indian 

 race ; but further observation is necessary of the Malayan animal, 

 which probably resembles that of the Indo-Chinese region. J 



The Bos sondaicus appears to be common enough in parts of Upper 

 Pegu, again in Mergui, and it occurs in Kedda, within the eastern con- 

 fines of the Malayan peninsula, in Siamese territory ; probably, also, 



* A small specimen (3rd year), thus characterized, he has since presented to 

 the Society. 



t This I partially remarked in J. A. S. XXT, note to p. 433. 



% Some Burmese heads and horns are, indeed, quite similar to Indian speci- 

 mens. Such an example is figured as " the head of a Tenasserim Bison," in Col. 

 Low's History of Tenasserim. Jour. Eoy. As. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 50. 



