General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . (;*.<.. WW&J THE GAUR (litis gaurus). The Gaur is an imposing animal of India, Burma and the MalayPeninsula. It is found in the forests, but sometimes feeds in grass) areas on the high hills. It is not found in the lowlands which has the appearance of plate prehensile upper lip indicates that itfeeds partly at least on leaves and twigs,but it is found chiefly in the grass-junglesof Assam. The Banting is perhaps the most likethe domestic cow in appearance of all thewild bovines, and may be ancestral t
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . (;*.<.. WW&J THE GAUR (litis gaurus). The Gaur is an imposing animal of India, Burma and the MalayPeninsula. It is found in the forests, but sometimes feeds in grass) areas on the high hills. It is not found in the lowlands which has the appearance of plate prehensile upper lip indicates that itfeeds partly at least on leaves and twigs,but it is found chiefly in the grass-junglesof Assam. The Banting is perhaps the most likethe domestic cow in appearance of all thewild bovines, and may be ancestral to theIndian cattle. It is. however, closely re-lated to the Gaur, but is found chieHv inflat country and at lower altitudes. Bant-ing are found from Burma and CochinChina to Bali in the Malay Archipelago. The Eld Deer, or Thamin, is distin-guished from other spec ies by the gracefulcurve of the antlers in the male. It occurson the alluvial plains and is found insuitable localities east of the Bav ofBengal, from Assam and Manipnr toCambodia, Hainan and the MalayPeninsula. The Sumatran
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