. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . for 1903,on the evidence of the head shown in fig. 5. Thisrace is characterised by its tall stature, dark colour(nearly black), the more thickly haired and fringed ears,the presence of a well-developed dewlap carrying a tuftor fringe of long hair in the adult, the greater downwardextension of the tawny colour on the forehead, andsometimes by a tawny band round the lower part ofthe jaw immediately above the muzzle. If the pyoung, or Burmese gaur, is
. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . for 1903,on the evidence of the head shown in fig. 5. Thisrace is characterised by its tall stature, dark colour(nearly black), the more thickly haired and fringed ears,the presence of a well-developed dewlap carrying a tuftor fringe of long hair in the adult, the greater downwardextension of the tawny colour on the forehead, andsometimes by a tawny band round the lower part ofthe jaw immediately above the muzzle. If the pyoung, or Burmese gaur, is separated fromthe Indian animal, there can be no reasonable doubt 1 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, The Gaur, or Indian Bison that the seladang, or Malay representative of the species,is likewise entitled to similar rank. This probability isconverted to a certainty by the distinctive featurespresented by three adult bull seladang heads recentlysent to London by Mr. T. R. Hubback, author ofElephant and Seladang Hunting in Malaya^ London,1904. In that work Mr. Hubback himself states thatin adult seladang there is no dewlap, and the colour of. Fig. 6.—Head of Seladang, sent home by Mr. T. R. Hubback, the stockings is dirty yellow. The heads justreferred to show that the seladang has a much smallerdevelopment of the ridge between the horns than theIndian gaur, a greater extent of tawny on the forehead,and also a distinct whitish band above the muzzle. Inone of the heads there is a fair development ot theintercornual ridge, but in the other two the line betweenthe horns is quite straight ; in fact, if it were not forthe horns, which are of the characteristic gaur type,their two heads might almost be referred to gayal. 63 Game Animals of India, etc. They render it practically certain that the latter is notspecifically distinct from the gaur ; and it is significantin this connection that the one supposed specimen of awild gaur was killed in Tenasserim. In the young seladang referre
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