. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . the gaur has been tamed and kept tame in some of thehill-tracts between Assam and Burma. A paraphrase ot this statementwas published by myself in the Royal Natural History. Commentingthereon. Colonel Pollok makes the following statement :— In a NaturalHistory lately published, it has been asserted that the gaur has beentamed, and that they are kept in captivity by natives on our north-easternfrontier, but this is altogether erroneous. In a footnote it is addedthat the writer was evidently misled hv Sanderson, whereas in reality,as s
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . the gaur has been tamed and kept tame in some of thehill-tracts between Assam and Burma. A paraphrase ot this statementwas published by myself in the Royal Natural History. Commentingthereon. Colonel Pollok makes the following statement :— In a NaturalHistory lately published, it has been asserted that the gaur has beentamed, and that they are kept in captivity by natives on our north-easternfrontier, but this is altogether erroneous. In a footnote it is addedthat the writer was evidently misled hv Sanderson, whereas in reality,as shown above, I have merely quoted Mr. Blanford, frcMii whom someadditional remarks on this subject are referred to under the next species. As illustrative of the extreme activity of the gaur, the followingextract trom a correspondent of Colonel Pollok living in Travancore isworth quotation :— When the Kaunan Devan Hills in North Travancore were openedout for tea and cinchona some vears ago, the felling of the tea forest Wild Oxen Sheep ScGoats. Plate BULL GAYAL. Published hr RcwiandWartilii Gayal 31 restricted the wild beasts, particularly the elephants and gaur, whenpassing across the estate, to one or two pathways. One particular trackwas, however, lett to them for about ten years, when further cultivationled at last to the blocking up of even this right of way. The animalswere at first much puzzled, and both elephants and gaur took to wander-ing about the cultivation. The elephants accommodated themselves to thealtered conditions and used the estate paths. The gaur, more suspicious,took a straight line tor their grazing grounds over the rotten felledtimber and through the older cinchona plantations, but were often broughtup by the sight of white-washed walls surmounted by a corrugated ironroof. At last they settled down to a pathway between the old cinchona anda natural belt left between it and the new clearing. A pit lo feet long,8 feet wide and 8 feet deep, was dug
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