. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . the tail relatively shorter, reaching but little, if at all, below thehocks, and a more or less distinct elevated ridge extending from the napeand shoulders to the middle ot the back, where it suddenly terminates,frequently forming a step of several inches in height. Colour of adultbulls generally dark blackish-brown, with the legs from above the kneesand hocks to the hoofs white or whitish ; females and young maleseither of a paler colour, or reddish-brown, with the same white short, line, and glossy, without tendency to
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . the tail relatively shorter, reaching but little, if at all, below thehocks, and a more or less distinct elevated ridge extending from the napeand shoulders to the middle ot the back, where it suddenly terminates,frequently forming a step of several inches in height. Colour of adultbulls generally dark blackish-brown, with the legs from above the kneesand hocks to the hoofs white or whitish ; females and young maleseither of a paler colour, or reddish-brown, with the same white short, line, and glossy, without tendency to turm a mane on anypart of the head or body. Hoofs narrow and pointed. Thirteen pairsof ribs. The ridge on the back, which attains a much smaller development inthe banting than in the other two species, is due to the enormous elevationof the neural spines ^ of the dorsal vertebra, the summits ot which torm anearly horizontal line from the third to the eleventh of the series, and then ^ Sec note on p. 8. Wild ,&^ 1. ■^ . f 1 - V«j. ^H: GAUR. Pui bushed, 6y Rixwltind Ward 1 td-. Gaur 23 make a sudden drop to the thirteenth and the lumbars, the twelfth dorsalbeing included in the side of this drop. Although the horns, as inthe typical group, are situated on its extreme vertex, the skull exhibitscertain differences of conformation on its hinder, or occipital aspect, bymeans of which it may readily be distinguished from that of thelatter. Distrihutioti.—The Oriental region. I. The Gaur—Bos gaurus Bos gciiiriis, H. Smith, in Griffiths Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 399(1827) ; Evans, yourn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi. p. 223, pi. xvi. (1837) ;Elliot, i/^iJ. X. p. 572 (1841) ; Blyth, i/?iJ. xi. p. 444 (1842), xxi. p. 433(1852), xxxi. p. 336 (1862) ; Mac Master, Notes on Jcrdon, p. 128 (1870) ;Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. Coll. Surgeons, pt. ii. p. 227 (1884) ;Blanford, P>-oc. Zoo/. Soc. 1890, p. 592, Fauna Brit. India—Mamm. p. 484(1891) ; W. L. Sclat
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