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push aside one of the sliding bars of the gate, break a lower one 
down, and raise the top bar sufficiently for himself to get 
through, he ate the bundle of Guinea-grass, and when this was 
finished he repeated the performance with the outer bars of the 
shed and walked out to freedom. Weare all wise after the event, 
but it was great carelessness in not pinning the bars, as is done 
in all well-managed stables in India. If this plan had been 
adopted, this magnificent animal, 16 hands 14 in. fair vertical 
height, might by this time be enriching the ‘Zoo,’ where nothing 
but a miserable two-year-old calf has ever been exhibited.” 
From one cause or other, no two observers agree as to the 
colour of a Gaur. Mr. Martin’s notes on this adult bull are 
therefore interesting and instructive :— 
** Slaty grey on the dorsal ridge, ae to intense black on 
the sides and shoulders; coffee-brown on the hind quarters, 
turning to black on the flanks; hoofs white; legs white to two 
inches above the knees and hocks on the outside, and to one inch 
above the knee and hocks on the inside; hair, inside the thighs 
and armpits, bright chestnut; neck black, with a large dewlap 
covered with coarse black hair, hanging down to a little below the 
level of the knees; head, frontal ridge, slaty grey, black down 
the front and sides of the face; the muzzle bare and dark slate. 
Colour of the iris of the eye mottled ight brown; pupil slaty 
blue. But these differ in colour in accordance with age, the very 
old being black, with the exception of the stockings and 
forehead, which are dirty white.” 
In another instance a large bull Gaur was caught in an 
elephant-pit on the Annemullie Hills, and this animal took water 
freely from a bamboo spout. The gentleman who caught it, 
not being in a position to keep and tame the bull, released it ; 
but it was ungrateful, and resented its capture by charging 
down on its captor whilst the latter was taking its photograph 
as it emerged from the pit, and he had to fly ignominiously, but 
not before he succeeded in photographing the animal. 
Whether the Gaur would interbreed with tame cows like the 
Gayal remains to be proved, but I see no reason why it should 
not. I believe that there are hybrids on the continent between 
_ the Java variety of T'sine and tame cattle, but I no not think a 
Tsine has ever been on show in our Zoological Gardens. 
