The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . nd hocks downwards, showing the usual white oryellowish stockings. In the domesticated condition parti-coloured, oreven wholly white, gayal are stated to be by no means uncommon. Since the foregoing remarks were penned an important communica-tion on the gaur and gayal, by Mr. E. C. Stuart-Baker, of Kachar, hasappeared in the columns of The Asian newspaper of the 20th and 27th ofFebruary 1900. This communication is illustrated with numerous figuresof skulls of both animals : and since its author has had unrivalled The Gayal 5 3 opportunities f
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . nd hocks downwards, showing the usual white oryellowish stockings. In the domesticated condition parti-coloured, oreven wholly white, gayal are stated to be by no means uncommon. Since the foregoing remarks were penned an important communica-tion on the gaur and gayal, by Mr. E. C. Stuart-Baker, of Kachar, hasappeared in the columns of The Asian newspaper of the 20th and 27th ofFebruary 1900. This communication is illustrated with numerous figuresof skulls of both animals : and since its author has had unrivalled The Gayal 5 3 opportunities for studying them, his conclusions are worthy the bestattention of naturahsts and sportsmen. Mr. Stuart-Baker commences his article by stating that he has studiedthe two animals for upwards of thirteen years. During the lirst two orthree years of this period, he writes, I held the opinion that they wereidentical. After this I veered round a good deal, and began to think thatthe reasons for considering them distinct mio:ht be rio-ht : this because I. Fig. 5.—Skull and Horns of a Bull Gayal from Tenasserim. In the Collection of Mr. A. O. Hume. quite failed to obtain certain necessary links between the two forms. Thelast two or three years, however, have produced specimens which haveshown every one of these same links, and I am now forced to the con-clusion that there is no ditFerence of specific value between the twoanimals, such differences as do exist being principally, if not entirely, theresult of domestication. This latter sentence, it may be remarked, is not quite what a scientificnaturalist would have written. What is really meant would seem to bethat the characters in which the typical gayal differs from the typical gaur 54 Great and Small Game of India, etc. are the results of domestication. Although several of the figures of gaurskulls given are those of immature animals in which the characteristicadult features are not attained, yet there does seem considerable eviden
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