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horns larger, heavier, and shorter, with the tips seldom worn. One 

 other point requires mentioning before further reference is made to the 

 new specimen. It used to be stated that the Gaur is characterized by 

 the absence of a dewlap, and of many specimens this appears to be 

 true. On the other hand, it is stated that in Travancore some of the 

 old bulls display a very strongly developed dewlap, although their 

 character is not constant in the district. More important still is a 

 statement by Mr. C. W. A. Bruce, published in my work on the 'Great 

 and Small Game of India,' &c, that the Burmese Gaur is always dis- 

 tinguished by the presence of a large dewlap in the old bulls, as well 

 as by their very dark colour. 



Unfortunately, Mr. Reade's specimen does not exhibit the whole of 

 the throat, but sufficient remains to show not only that there was a 

 well-marked dewlap, but that the upper portion of this, at any rate, 

 carries a tuft of long black hair. Such a throat-fringe is quite unknown 

 in Indian Gaur, and its occurrence in the Burmese form seems quite 

 sufficient to indicate the racial distinctness of the latter. In the speci- 

 men under consideration the hair of the face is marked by a number 

 of small light-coloured spots, very similar in hue to the light area on 

 the forehead ; whether, however, this is anything more than an in- 

 dividual peculiarity, I am unable to say. Very noticeable is a band of 

 tawny hair immediately above the naked portion of the muzzle, which 

 is always light-coloured in Gaur. A trace of this tawny band is 

 observable in the plate accompanying Mr. Blanford's notice of the 

 young bull from the Malay Peninsula, to which reference has been 

 already made ; but it is altogether wanting in the two mounted Indian 

 Gaur in the British Museum, in which the whole of the hairy part of 

 the muzzle is dark-coloured, with the exception of a small streak on 

 each lip. 



It may also be mentioned that the general colour of the hair of the 

 Burmese head (both in the dark and light areas) apparently differs some- 

 what from that of Indian examples, although I have not had an oppor- 

 tunity of making an exact comparison in this respect. The horns, too, 

 are distinctly different in appearance from those of Indian Gaur, being 

 decidedly peculiar. In old Indian bull Gaur it is generally, if not in- 

 variably, the right horn that has its tip worn away by the animal con- 

 stantly using this horn more than its fellow. In the Burmese specimen, 

 on the other hand, it is the left horn that is thus worn. Whether this 

 is anything more than an individual peculiarity, I am of course unable 

 to say. 



The foregoing comparisons seem to leave no reasonable doubt of 



