886 Dr TrailTs Account of the Gour of India. 
identity of the buffalo and urna, that the latter is usually called 
the Wild Buffalo. 
The case is very different with the Gour. This animal is 
considered by the Indians as of a species totally distinct from ei- 
Uier ; and is even said to have a strong antipathy for the urna, 
which it will not suffer to intrude upon its domains ; while the 
differences in its external form and habits, are such as to mark 
it of a different species ; and, as it is well termed in a MS. 
journal of a hunting party ? now before me, as u the giant of 
the bovine race. 1 ’ A perusal of this MS., and the personal ex- 
planations of Captain Rogers, who was on that excursion, un- 
dertaken for the purpose of hunting th-e gour , have led me to 
believe that the animal is unknown to our systematic naturalists ; 
and I am not aware that any detailed account of it has ever 
been published. 
The only animal with which it appears to have affinity is the 
Gaijal , or Bos Gavceus , described in Mr Colebrooke’s commu- 
nication, in the Asiatic Researches *. That animal is said to 
exist, both wild and domestic, in the hilly countries of Upper 
India ; to have a high dorsal ridge, somewhat similar to what 
we shall immediately find in the gour : but the very different 
form of its head, the presence of a distinct dewlap , and the ge- 
neral habit of the gaijal, appear sufficient to distinguish it from 
the gour ; and Captain Rogers assures me, that neither the de- 
scriptions in Mr Colebrooke's communication, nor the figure of 
the gaijal that accompanies them, have any greater resemblance 
to the gour, than that general one which, subsists between all the 
animals of this genus. 
The gour , according to that gentleman, occurs in several 
mountainous parts of Central India, but is chiefly found in 
Myn Pat or Mine Paul , a high insulated mountain, with a 
tabular summit, in the province of Sergojah, in South Bahar. 
This table-land is about 36 miles in length, by 9A or 25 miles 
in medial breadth, and rises above the neighbouring plains pro- 
bably 2000 feet. The sides of the mountain slope with consi- 
derable steepness, and are furrowed by streams that water nar- 
* Vol. viii. Art. 8. 
•f Pat or Paut, in Hindustanee, signifies table-land . 
