The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . inate in large and massive hoofs. Verycharacteristic of the bull yak are its long, massive, and gracefully-curvedblack horns, which form some of the finest trophies of which the Indiansportsman can boast. Although very slightly compressed at the base inaged bulls, yak horns are nearly cylindrical in section and smooththroughout their length ; their curvature is at first upwards and outwards,then forwards, and finally inwards and upwards, with a slightly backwardinclination in some examples. Cow horns (Plate II. Fig. /\.a) are muchmore slender
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . inate in large and massive hoofs. Verycharacteristic of the bull yak are its long, massive, and gracefully-curvedblack horns, which form some of the finest trophies of which the Indiansportsman can boast. Although very slightly compressed at the base inaged bulls, yak horns are nearly cylindrical in section and smooththroughout their length ; their curvature is at first upwards and outwards,then forwards, and finally inwards and upwards, with a slightly backwardinclination in some examples. Cow horns (Plate II. Fig. /\.a) are muchmore slender than those of the bulls. The longest yak horns on record The Yak 67 are a pair in the Museum at Lucknow, which are stated to measure39 inches along the curve ; their other dimensions being unknown. Nextto these are a pair measuring 38I inches in length, 17 in girth, and19 between the tips. The lengths of other line examples are respectively35h 34. 32I, 32, 31I 31. and 30! inches. To return to the general description of the animal, the hair on the. Fig. 8.—Skull and Horns of Bull Yak. From a specimen in the British IVIuscam. head, back, and upper portion of the sides is comparatively short andsmooth, but on the lower part of the flanks is elongated to form a pendentfringe extending across the shoulders and thighs ; there is likewise a tuftof elongated hair on the front of the chest, and the lower half of the tailis enveloped in a huge bunch of still longer hair, reaching somewhatbelow the hocks. In wild yak the coat is uniformly blackish brownthroughout, although showing a little white in the region of the muzzle, 68 Great and Small Game of India, etc. with a sprinkling of grey on the head and face in old animals, and tendingto rusty on the back in aged bulls. The semi-domesticated yak of theelevated plateau of Rupshu, which, as the present writer can testify frompersonal experience, are kittle cattle to deal with, are very large, andgenerally, if not always, as dark-coloured
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