Pah ALOOLOGIST 
No. 679.—January, 1898. 
INDIAN WILD CATTLE: THE TSINE AND THE 
GAUR (MISCALLED BISON). 
By Cononet Pook. 
I was very glad to see the article in ‘The Zoologist’ (1897, 
p. 489), by Surgeon-Captain Henry 8. Wood, on the Tsine (Bos 
sondaicus). Very littleis known of that animal, and any detailed 
account of it must be interesting to all zoologists. The account 
given by naturalists of the Indian wild cattle is very meagre, for 
very few of them have been personally acquainted with these 
beasts in their wild state. I have no pretensions to be considered 
a scientific naturalist, for I know nothing of anatomy, and very 
little on the subject of species, genera, &c. But I have observed 
to the best of my opportunities, and having been a fairly 
successful sportsman, I trust I may be excused for offering the 
following observations. T'sine are certainly kittle cattle. During 
thirteen years’ wanderings in Burma I only succeeded in killing 
three bulls and two cows, and four of them only just before I left 
India. I’agree with Dr. Wood’s description and remarks, with the 
_exce vtion that I never saw the warts he mentions, and that those 
killed by me had the whitish rings round the eyes. Can there be 
two v:.ieties ? Mine were shot at the foot of the Yomahs, on 
the Sittang side. The bulls also were of a deep red, but I have 
seen them in the distance almost as dark as a middle-aged Gaur 
(Bos gaurus), that is, coffee-coloured, but never could get at them ; 
nor did I notice the “ thickened portion of skin devoid of hair, 
Zool. 4th ser. vol. II., January, 1898. B 
