1831 .] 
Contributions in Natural History , 
323 
The dimensions and size are as follows 
Feet. 
5 
In. 
8 
2 
6 
3 
0 
2 
Si 
7i 
0 
Length of animal, from setting on of horns to root of tail, 
Height of animal, at the fore-quarter, 4 
Ditto ditto, at the hind-quarter, 4 
Length of head, 1 
Ditto of tail, 1 
Ditto ditto, to end of hair, 1 
Ditto of the ears, 0 
Utmost vertical measure of the head, 0 
Length of the neck, • 2 
Ditto of the body, from the fore angle of the shoulder to 
hind angle of the ham, 3 8 
Depth of the body, at the chest, 1 7 
Height of fore-leg, in a straight line, 2 7 
Ditto of hind ditto, ditto ditto, 3 0 i 
Length of the horns, in a straight line, 2 5 
Basal girth of ditto, just above the ring, 0 8| 
Basal interval of ditto, 0 2 § 
Divergency of tips, 2 1 
Weight of horns, 8$ lbs. 
The accompanying sketch PI. XXI. of the Jaraiis admirably faithful, easy and 
natural. 
S. — The materials of the above description are principally derived from a 
careful inspection of a living Jara'i, which has been for the last 18 months, in the 
zoological garden (the term is apt and therefore may as well be used) of the Raja 
Nepal. The individual in question is a male ; and was upwards of a year old, 
when taken. He is very gentle and tractable, except during the rutting season. 
It is necessary, however, to govern him by means of a noose passed through the 
cartilege of the nose. A friend has suggested to me, that though this animal has 
attained his full dimensions of extent, he has not reached the bulk which belongs 
to maturity ; and that, as he is extremely inclined to obesity in the wild state, the 
species can hardly escape from the charge of awkward grossness and heaviness 
°f make. 
Ihe same friend also observes that, like the stag, the Jara'i is much addicted to 
wallowing in the mire, that his special habitat is the lower hills and Saul forest, and 
that in the old animal, the horns are weightier and larger than my statement 
them. With reference to this last point, I have ransacked my godown for J arm's 
h °rns: and out of six pair found in it, have selected one of certainly somewhat 
greater size than that set down in the description. 
■The following are the size and dimensions of this pair of horns : 
Feet. 
2 
2 
0 
In. 
II 
8 * 
Length, in a straight line. 
Ditto, along the curve, 
Dasal circuit, above the rings, 
height, including that of an attached fragment of skull, 14 
Dasal interval of horns. 
Divergency of tins 
In the horns, now spoken of, the development of the frontal , q 
^ordinarily great, so great that these branches are scarce y Tb 
lc hness, aud not remarkably so in length, to the main stems o 
0 
2 
3 i 
0 
very 
