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now, when about two years old and a large animal with for¬ 
midable horns, it is still so tractable, that it is permitted to 
wander about the Gardens for a few hours daily. Another 
Gaur-calf, a female, was presented to the Gardens in Feb¬ 
ruary of this year by Col. A. A. Kinloch, so well known 
as an enthusiastic sporstman and as- the author of the 
“ Large Wild Game of India. ” He captured it while on 
a shooting excursion after Gaur in the Chutia Nagpur 
District, and brought it down to Calcutta. It was treated 
in exactly the same way as Mr. Wallich’s animal, and 
throve admirably for three months, being very active and 
a great runner,—running and jumping as fast as any deer ; 
but one hot day, in the close of May, its breathing sud¬ 
denly became rapid, and in about twelve hours it was dead. 
The Committee’s efforts to obtain a Gaur fromBurmah were 
so far successful, that they purchased a young bull-calf 
for Rs. 150, very shortly after the arrival of Col. Kinloch’s 
animal, but although similarly treated it did not thrive, 
and died in about two months. 
The Bantings, Bos sondaicus , a bull and cow, and their 
calf bred in the Gardens, are very handsome and beautiful 
animals, of a rich reddish fawn colour, the male being 
somewhat darker and tending to brown. They have 
white stockings ; and a large white patch on the buttocks, 
a feature which is not found in any other species of ox, 
but it occurs in some deer, for instance, in the Wapiti on 
the other side of the road. These animals are perfectly 
tame and were obtained by exchange with Mr. Rutledge, 
the well-known dealer in animals, in Calcutta. They are 
supposed to have been procured from the island of Bali, 
near Java, where the species has become domesticated 
much in the same way as the Gyal or Mithun, Bos frontalis , 
