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Contributions in Natural History. 
[Oct. 
- f 5 l,oulders, and the outward how is large. The back, too, m this attitude, is 
considerably arched, and the withers very decidedly lower than the croupe. But, 
such is the elasticity of entire frame possessed by this large and weighty animal, 
"hat he has only to change his position in order to raise the fore-quarters to » 
level with the hind, to straighten the back and even to give it a concave bend. 
At rest the neck appears to be short; but it is, in fact, long and slender- o 
Ion"- that high as the Jarai stands, he can graze without the least bending of I it 
forelegs ’ The body is full, but not clumsily heavy'; and there is considerable 
Leraf compression of the barrel. The legs are long and slender, though not 
elegantly so, owing to the coarseness of the hide and hair. _ The hoofs are longn 
and narrow: the neck thin and long: the head small, light, an. ^ elcgan 
small vertical dimensions, but still having a considerable tapering to tk 
formed muzzle. The eye has only a moderate lustre and size, 
is very moist, and the suborbital sinuses, S-skaped, as usual with this gen-, 
of medial size, and clearly, but not strikingly, dehned. The tail is m v 
and void of character; the hair wiry, spare, applied to the skin, »'»!>' 
and having no peculiar elongation on any part of the body : the ho™i, « • 
massive at the base, and gradually tapered to their sharp points; the s 
very rough and granulated, as in the stag; the recurvation, very sh,ht, 
divergency, great. They have but two branches from the mam stem , on 
at the base, and the other, about a foot from the tip of either horn ; both, 
and conical, and the former in old animals approximating to the size ot t e s eta. 
The ears are large, wide-opened, and broadly rounded at top, with little hair »nsi 
them, and almost none outside. Large as they are, they give no un pleasing expres 
sion to the face, but rather the contrary, as the animal quietly waves t iem o 
fro, fanning his head. The Jam only wants a finer coat, and somewhat ligh ei 
more gracefully curved horns, to make him be considered beautiful. As 1 > 
cannot but admire the combination of so much elasticity of frame an so 0 
evidence of speed, with such size and strength as he exhibits. 
He inhabits the whole extent of these mountains west and east from 
to the Tista : but only that half of their breadth, between the snows an P • 
India, which lies next to the latter. He never moves higher from the P ' ain ' 
the position of the great valley of Nlptl, and is most common in the tracts at > ^ 
to the lowlands. He is frequently met with in the great Saul forest at >e ^ 
the mountains; but never, I believe, in the open plains, So .far as I* ’ ^ 
species is not very gregarious ; not so, certainly, in the hills. 16 a [ ai j,j 3 
forests, and will not ever quit them for the open country : bu *» ^ 3 “ g ^ 
make, and by the comparative numbers found at the foot of t 
and in their interior, I fancy he is no otherwise partial to mountain ^ 
our’s, than as he is compelled to seek the seclusion they afford, or is ^ 
by the noble garniture of woods in which they are every where ari * a Y^ 
general colour of the Jarai is dusky brown, sprinkled with hoar) sui a . ^ 
and with rusty, behind; except the head, which has the red sprm io ^ ftf 
fore parts : pectoral surface of the neck, and belly, andoutsieo ” c j. s be* 
down as the hocks and knees, dusky brown, like the supeiior suiface. res id.ue 
hind, and insides of limbs, as far down as before noted, bright rust) ^ ^ ro0 t 
the limbs to the hoofs, paler, or albescent rusty, with a dusky stiipe to ^ esce ot 
of each leg : round the eyes, bases of the ears, and undei lip and c » 
white : upper lip blackish, and a patch of the same hue on the lowe ^ ^tock 3 
gape: tail, unmixed dusky brown, blended with the bright rusty 0 . ^ uS ky. 
only where it connects itself with them : muzzle and hoofs black . 
