r kind of earth, salt and cotton. They
then drive their tame gayals towards the wild ones, when the two herds
soon meet and assimilate into one, the males of the one attaching
themselves to the females of the other, and _vice versa_. The Kookies
now scatter their balls over such parts of the jungles as they think
the herd most likely to pass, and watch its motions. The gayals, on
meeting these balls as they pass along, are attracted by their
appearance and smell, and begin to lick them with their tongues, and,
relishing the taste of the salt and the particular earth composing
them, they never quit the place till all the balls are consumed. The
Kookies, having observed the gayals to have once tasted their balls,
prepare a sufficient supply of them to answer the intended purpose,
and as the gayals lick them up they throw down more; and it is to
prevent their being so readily destroyed that the cotton is mixed
with the earth and the salt. This process generally goes on for three
changes of the moon or for a month and a-half, during which time the
tame and the wild gayals are always together, licking the decoy balls,
and the Kookie, after the first day or two of their being so, makes
his appearance at such a distance as not to alarm the wild ones. By
degrees he approaches nearer and nearer, until at length the sight
of him has become so familiar that he can advance to stroke his tame
gayals on the back and neck without frightening the wild ones. He
next extends his hand to them and caresses them also, at the same
time giving them plenty of his decoy balls to lick. Thus, in the short
space of time mentioned, he is able to drive them, along with the
tame ones, to his _parrah_ or village, without the least exertion
of force; and so attached do the gayals become to the _parrah_, that
when the Kookies migrate from one place to another, they always find
it necessary to set fire to the huts they are about to abandon, lest
the gayals should return to them from the new grounds."

NO. 466. GAVAEUS SONDAICUS.
_The Burmese Wild Ox_.

NATIVE NAME.--_Tsoing_, Burmese; _Banteng_ of the Javanese.

HABITAT.--"Pegu, the Tenasserim provinces, and the Malayan
peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Java; being domesticated in the
island of Bali" (_Blyth_).

DESCRIPTION.--This animal resembles the gaur in many respects, and
it is destitute of a dewlap, but the young and the females are bright
chestnut. The bulls become black with age, excepting a