ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
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Its horns more resemble those of domestic cattle in their 
cylindrical character, and especiaily in the way in which 
they are curved upwards and inwards towards their 
tips, a character which is never present in the divergent 
horns of the Gyal. The Gaur’s horns also in their 
colour, approach more to those of domestic cattle than do 
the black horns of the Gyal. In other respects, especially 
in make and colour, the two are much alike. Both of them 
attain a considerable size, and a full-grown bull Gaur 
sometimes stands six feet at the shoulder. 
The Gaur is excessively wary, but very courageous, and 
it is said to charge its human opponents without the slight¬ 
est wavering. It is distributed throughout Southern and 
Central India, and extends into Orissa, where it is known as 
the Gyal, and it is found also in the Bhutan Terai, .and 
spreads through Assam and Arakan to Burma, and to the 
Malayan peninsula. The calf here exhibited of this species 
was obtained by Mr. Wallich in the Bhutan Doars. It is a 
large animal for its age, of a dark reddish-brown or rusty 
colour, with white ‘ stockings 5 and rather long legs : its 
horns were only beginning to show when it came to the 
Gardens. It was reared with the greatest difficulty, as it 
was still in the milk stage and had to be hand-fed with 
milk which it would only drink out of a metal vessel, the 
deep rim of which it seized and sucked. As all previous 
attempts at rearing Gaurs in confinement had signally failed, 
this calf was allowed to roam through the Gardens even to 
the detriment of the plants, and being a shade-loving ani¬ 
mal, frequenting the densest forests, the instincts of the lit¬ 
tle creature led it to seek seclusion and shade in the centre 
of the most choice groups of shrubs. This freedom con¬ 
ferred upon it, however, no doubt kept it alive, and even 
