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common to all the members of the group, the colour of the gaur is 

 uniform ; but the much flattened horns are of a peculiar yellowish green 

 tint at the base. The height of adult bulls at the shoulder varies from 

 about 6 feet to 6 feet 4 inches, though specimens of not more than S 

 feet S or 6 inches are killed. 



Distribution. — The forest hill-tracts of Peninsular India, Assam, Burma, 

 and the Malay Peninsula, as well as the forests along the outer 

 Himalaya as far west as Nepal. South of the Ganges, where it 

 has not been exterminated, the gaur inhabits suitable districts in 

 Chutia Nagpur, Orissa, the Northern Circars, Central Provinces, 

 Hyderabad territories, and all the Western Ghats. 



