OF INDIAN BIG GAME o 



between the town of that name and Lemyne ; shot by Mr. 

 W. Davison, Mr. Hume's collector. Length of horns 14^, 

 girth 1.3 J, tip-to-tip interval 28 inches. This specimen stands 

 E"o. 3 in Mr. Ward's list. It is mentioned by Blanford as 

 being the only wild gayal with which he was acquainted. 



THE YAK. 



Bos (PoiiPHAGUS) GRUNNIENS. 



Bos grunniens, Linn., 8yst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 71, 1758, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 99, 1766 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 490, 

 1891 ; LydeTcker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 76, 1907 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 437, 1910. 



5.— 12. 10. 31. 85. Skull, with horns (fig. 2), Angir- 

 takshin Pass, Kuen-lun Mountains ; shot, in the 'seventies. 



KiG. 2.— Skull and Hobns of Yak [Bos [Poephagus'] grunniens). 

 rrom Ward's Records of Big Game. 



by Mr. A. Dalgleish, who in the early part of that decade was 

 attached to the Central Asian Trading Company, and was 



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