161 
443, XXII, ). H. Horn from the Arakan 
side of the mountains which separate that 
province from Pegu (or the valley of the 
Irawadij. Presented by Col. Phayre, in 
1847. /. An interesting horn, converted 
into a powder-flask, illustrative of the ^ Shan 
Bison' of Mr. Landers, presented in 1844. 
J. Another Peguan horn, like the last, at a 
stage of development which illustrates the 
meaning of the reported * cylindrical-horned 
humpless cattle' of the Indo-Chinese region. 
506. G. GAURUS ; Bos gaurus, C. H. Smith {Madr. 
Jour. Lit. Sc. X (1839), p. 227 ; J. A. S. X, 
470, not good). 
Syn. B. gour, Traill. 
B. aculeatus, Wagler, Schinz. 
B. asseelf Horsfield (female variety). 
Bibos camfronSj Hodgson. 
(The Gaour, or ' Bison' of Anglo-Indian 
sportsmen ; termed Gaydl in Kuttak : 
Pyouiig of Burma.) 
Hab. All suitable districts of India (and formerly 
Ceylon) ; Asamese hills, and Indo-Chinese 
region generally, extending southward through- 
out the length of the Malayan peninsula, but 
not to the islands : inhabiting grassy uplands, 
interspersed with forest. 
(iV. B. — The Gaours of Burma run very large, the bulls 
commonly attaining from 6 to 6^ feet, and even more (some- 
times to 20 hands), at the summit of the elevated dorsal ridge; 
and the horns, of both sexes, are shorter and much thicker 
than in Indian Gaours.* A skull of a Tenasserim bull, 
with horns (minus lower jaw), weighs 34 lbs. Our largest 
Indian skull similarly weighs 30 lbs. ; and both are parti- 
cularly fine. Some Burmese specimens, however, resemble 
the Indian race ; and the same remark applies to all of the 
skulls which I have seen from the Malayan peninsula). 
* Mr Hodgson's figure of a Nepalese Gaour, in J. A. S. X, 470, approaches 
the Burmese type ; and the figure of the head of a Tenasserim Gaour, by • 
Capt. (since Col.) Low, in Jour. Hoy. As. Soc. Ill (1836 J, p. 50, is quite 
that of the Indian type. The Rhinoceros-head figured on the same plate with 
the other is obviously that of Bh. sondaicus, and not of Rh. sumatranus (as sug- 
gested by Dr. Cantor, in J. A, S. XV, 613). 
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