DANGER IN STALKING THEM. 
be forgotten. The rush of a wounded bison through the 
jungle as he crushes down the saplings and the bamboos is 
quite appalling, and the crafty manner in which he will wait 
for you, when following his bleeding tracks, hidden in 
some high grass, is enough to make the most daring proceed 
with the greatest caution, for a toss from an enraged 
wounded bull is pretty certain to bring you to the utmost 
grief. The solitary bulls are the easiest to approach, but 
they are also the most dangerous. It is strange how easily 
they can hide themselves in the jungle ; I have been within 
twenty paces of a big bison, hearing him snuffle, seeing 
the grass move, and yet he remained quite invisible. If 
a herd, particularly when feeding happen to get your wind, 
they make themselves scarce in no time* and will disappear 
as if by magic. 
The GAUR, Gavmis gmtrtis, Jerdon. Bos gmtrus of 
other authors ; is known to all sportsmen of Southern India as 
the Bison ; why Col. W. Campbell should state that iVIadras 
sportsmen call this animal a wild bull, except that the male is 
a bull and is wild, is incomprehensible. It is certainly the 
largest of all existing bovine animals. The males average 
from five feet eight to five feet ten in heigh t> and the cows 
from five feet to five feet three, but at times monsters of both 
sexes are met with. I have killed bulls measuring six feet at 
the shoulder, and I once killed a cow bison measuring five 
feet eight inches. An old bull bison is a magnificent animal, 
the normal colour is a brownish black, sometimes in very old 
specimens almost quite black, and then the white stockings 
from the hoof to above the knee are very conspicuous. The 
horns of the bulls are grand trophies, the average may be 
from twenty to twenty four inches round the outside curve but 
