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Title: 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,'
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds Mammals
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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, such as the Rann otKutch, where, at certain seasons, there is no water butsuch as is salt, o;hor-khar must po for considerableperiods without drinking. Like the kiang, thesewild asses, in spite of their fleetness of foot, are byno means well-bred-looking animals, the head beingdisproportionately large and heavy, as well as ungrace-fully carried. THE GAUR, OR INDIAN BISON (Bos (Bihs) gaurus) Native Names.^—Gaur and Gauri-gai, Hindustani ;Gayal in Orissa ; Gaor (male) and Gaib (female)IN Chutia Nagpur ; Sainal^ Ho-kol ; GaviynyMahrathi ; Pera-mao of the Southern Gonds ;Kdtuerimai^ Tamil ; Karkona^ Karti^ Kard-yemmCyKard-korna and Doddu^ Canarese ; Karthu andPaothUy Malabari ; Mithan^ Assamese ; Seloriin Chittagong ; Pyoung^ Burmese ; SeladangyMalay. (Plate ii, figs, i, \d) In addition to the foregoing list of designations, thegreat wild ox of India is frequently called in variousparts of the peninsula by several names meaning wildbuffalo. By English sportsmen, on the other hand,, 50
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Plate II 1, Id. Gaur. 3. Burmese Bantin, or Tsain. 2, 2a. Gayal. 4, 4a. Yak. 5, 5^. Indian Buffalo. 51 Game Animals of India, etc. this magnificent animal is almost invariably called bison—a title properly belonging to Bos bonasus of Lithuaniaand the Caucasus. Questions are sometimes asked insporting newspapers whether the application of theterm bison to the gaur is legitimate. The answer isvery simple, namely, that it is not. Domesticated oxen(together with their extinct wild progenitors), gaur andgayal, bison, yak, and buffaloes collectively constitutethe ox tribe ; and since the domesticated ox is the typeof the whole group, they may all, in a general sense, beclassed as oxen. Had the bison of Europe been madethe typical representative of the group, then that termmight likewise have been employed in the same generalsense, and the gaur termed a bison as it now is an ox ;but as matters stand, such a usage is indefensible.The true domesticated oxen form one division of thegroup. Nex

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