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village, without the least exertion of force ; and so attached 
do the Gayals become to the parrah, that when the Kookies 
migrate from one place to another, they always find it neces¬ 
sary to set fire to the huts they are about to abandon, lest 
the Gayals should return to them from the new grounds.” 
The leading features of this animal, are its very short 
and game-like head, and the thick outwardly divergent 
black horns which are but little curved inwards, and 
the great dewlap. Like the Gaur, the adult bull is a 
dark, almost black brown; the legs being white below 
the knee and fetlock. The cows in both species are 
paler than the bulls, and with a reddish tint. When 
there is any impurity in a Gyal it shows itself gene¬ 
rally in pale or white spots, or blotches, and in imper¬ 
fectly marked white stockings. One of the distinguishing 
features of both the Gyal and Gaur, but to a much less 
extent in the Banting, is the prominent ridge on the 
anterior portion of the back, produced by the great elonga¬ 
tion of the spinous processes of the vertebrae in that region ; 
and, as these processes become short at the nth dorsal 
vertebra in the Gyal, there is a sudden fall in the back at 
that point. 
The Gaur as well as the Gyal occurs in the Chittagong 
hill-tracts, the Gaur being a much wilder animal 
than the Gyal and never found semi-domesticated. 
The chief distinctions between the two species lie in 
the form of the head and horns, and in the absence of a 
dewlap in the Gaur. The Gaur has a much longer skull 
than the short truncated skull of the Gyal, and the 
forehead is more concave and defined above, between the 
horns, by a prominent arching of the bone. The skin also 
above the eyes is always thrown into a series of wrinkles. 
