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get at. Other conditions being favourable, wherever there are 
salt-licks, that is, depressions. where a whitish clay impregnated 
with natron is found, these wild cattle, Deer, and even the Felide, 
will abound. It is the Gayal that are in captivity, and not the 
Gaur. When I first went to Burma I wrote to Mr. Blyth, 
the curator of the museum in Calcutta, that the Burmese Gaur 
appeared to me to be larger, and to differ somewhat from the 
Indian, but he wrote back I must be mistaken, as the Gayal took 
its place in that country, the true Gaur being absent. However, 
I was soon able to correct him by sending him heads, and as he 
shortly after visited the province, he convinced himself that I was 
right, and wrote that not only were there the true Gaur in the 
country, but that the skulls and horns were superior to those 
from Southern India. I pointed out to “‘Smoothbore,” many 
years ago, that there were two distinct varieties of this Wild Bull, 
but he was incredulous until he visited Calcutta and spoke to 
Dr. Anderson, who said, “ Pollok is quite right; here are skulls 
of both.” The discrepancies may be due to climatic influences 
and abundance of food; undoubtedly the Gaur of Burma and of 
our North-Eastern Frontier are larger than the Indian. I have 
shot a bull within an ace of 21 hands at the shoulder, and 
General Blake, an old sportsman, shot a cow 19 hands, whereas 
the largest bull killed by him in India was of the same size, and 
the largest he ever saw killed in the Wynand but two inches 
higher. Even in India Gaur vary; those of the Western Ghats 
being larger, and with a profile like a Ram, in that respect 
resembling their Burmese brethren. Not only does the Burmese 
Gaur stand higher, but the dorsal ridge extends further back, to 
within a span of the croup, the dent in the forehead is deeper, 
the cylindric crest higher, the horns larger, heavier and more 
truncated, and but seldom worn at the tips asin the Indian. I 
fancy food is so plentiful they have no need to grub up 
roots. The heads of the females are, if anything, longer than 
those of the males, and the nose is more arched. | | 
Those in the Northern Circars of the Madras Presidency, where 
I shot a great many, have, comparatively speaking, shorter heads, 
and less of the Ram look; the dorsal ridge terminating about the 
middle of the back. Then, too, there is the dewlap—has the Gaur 
one or not? Up to a few years ago the opinion was—not. But 
