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smoother, and less branched; the brow-antler especially is more 
elongated; and the crown is usually bifid, or with but a slight third 
prong, instead of being strongly trifid, or in some instances with even 
a fourth large coronal prong ; but I have seen southern examples of 
intermediate character, and one of the largest size which was well 
elongated. Col. C. S. Guthrie lately assured me that he had possessed 
a large Munnipur pair of horns which were quite single or unbranched, 
and the brow-antler in a continuous line with the beam.* This is 
an exaggeration of the ordinary Munnipur character of horn. Mr. 
Hodgson’s C. dimoryhe I consider exceedingly doubtful as having 
been captured north or west of the Brahmaputra. 
To Col. Phayre, we are further indebted for some loose horns of 
(Burmese) Bos gaurus; and for (now in all) three skulls of bulls 
of B. soNDAictrs, all from Pegu, and an imperfect skin of a cow: the 
latter being of a bright chesnut-dun colour, and exhibiting the 
characteristic white patch on the buttocks. 
As regards the former species, the Gaour seems to attain even a 
higher development in the Burmese countries than in India; not 
unfrequently, it would seem, attaining to 19 hands from the summit 
of the elevated dorsal ridge ; and the horns, generally, are much 
more robust and considerably shorter, in both sexes, than in Indian 
Gaours.f A remarkably fine skull, with horns, of the latter ( minus the 
lower jaw) in the Society’s museum weighs just 30 lbs. ; an equally 
fine skull of the Burmese race ( minus the lower jaw), belonging to 
Col. A. Fytclie, (Commissioner of the Martaban and Tenasserim 
provinces,) weighs 34 lbs. : both skulls of highly developed bulls, of 
course. From what I remember of a fine bull-skull, from the mainland 
near Singapore, I think that the horns were longer, as in the Indian 
race ; but further observation is necessary of the Malayan animal, 
which probably resembles that of the Indo-Chinese region.^ 
The Bos sokdaicus appears to be common enough in parts of Upper 
Pegu, again in Mergui, and it occurs in Kedda, within the eastern con¬ 
fines of the Malayan peninsula, in Siamese territory; probably, also, 
* A small specimen (3rd year), thus characterized, he has since presented to 
the Society. 
f This I partially remarked in J. A. S. XXT, note to p. 433. 
X Some Burmese heads and horns are, indeed, quite similar to Indian speci¬ 
mens. Such an example is figured as “ the head of a Tenasserim Bison,” in Col. 
Low’s History of Tenasserim. Jour. Boy. As. Soc., Yol. Ill, p. 50. 
