tice another species of Gayal, of which a male and female were
in the Governor General's park, at Barrackpore. This species differs in
some particulars from the domesticated Gayal, and also from the Asseel,
or true Gayal; first, in size, being a larger animal than the domestic
one; secondly, in the largeness of the dewlap, which is deeper and more
undulated than in either the wild or tame species; and, thirdly, in the
size and form of the horns."

Thus, according to the opinion of General Hardwicke, there are three
distinct species of the Gayal; but in this matter nothing can be decided
without further evidence, which we hope will soon appear in the shape of
complete skeletons, and accurate drawings and descriptions.

[Illustration]

THE TAME OR DOMESTIC GAYAL.

[Illustration]

The representation of the Gayal here given was taken from a living
specimen in the Zoological Gardens, 1846.

The scanty information I was able to glean concerning it, consists in
its having been procured at Chitagong, and shipped, as a commercial
speculation, from Calcutta for London, in January 1844, when about two
years and a half old. It remained in the Zoological Gardens till the
summer of 1846, when it died from inflammation of the bowels, brought on
chiefly by eating too much green food.

I had the above particulars from Mr. Bartlett, naturalist, &c., who had
been commissioned to dispose of it. He preserved the skeleton, which he
kindly allowed me to examine, and from which I made the sketches of the
skull and horns, which appear on the following page.

The skeleton has fourteen pairs of ribs.

[Illustration: Skull of Domestic Gayal, viewed in front, with Section of
Horn.]

Inches.

Distance from tip to tip (_a_ to _a_) 39
Length of horn (_a_ to _b_) 16
Circumference of horn at base 17
Distance of bases (_b_ to _b_) 11
Length of skull (_c_ to _c_) 19

Fig. _d_, section of the horn, at the base.

[Illustration: Occipital view of the same Skull.]

[Illustration: Head of Domestic Gayal.]

In concluding these details of the Gayal and Gyall, let it be remarked
that, when we hear one animal called Gayal and another Gyall, we are
not, _on that account merely_, to set them down as of the same species.
It is hardly necessary to say, that similarity or even identity of na