. Les animaux de jeu de l'Inde, de la Birmanie, de la Malaisie et du Tibet; étant une nouvelle édition révisée du «grand et petit jeu de l'Inde, de la Birmanie, et du Tibet», . f qui sont caractérisés par leurs garrot élevés, cheveux courts, et les membres à tête blanche. La troisième section comprend les bisons européen et américain, avec lesquels le théyak peut être inclus; Tous ceux qui ont de longues cheveux une partie du corps, uniformément des membres foncés, sans la crête-comme la bosse de la deuxième section.Lastly, il ya les buffles, qui diffèrent de toutes les autres par la forme particulière de leurs cornes. Le groupe d'Eachsectionnel est parfaitement

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. 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, ' . f which arecharacterised by their elevated withers, short hair, andwhite-stockinged limbs. The third section includesthe European and American bisons, with which theyak may perhaps be included; all these having long hairon some part of the body, uniformly dark limbs, andlacking the ridge-like hump of the second section.Lastly, there are the buffaloes, differing from all theothers by the peculiar form of their horns. Eachsectional group is perfectly well defined, and it wouldbe just as logical to call the gaur a buffalo as to dub ita bison ; but since there are few things more difficultto amend than popular misapplications of names, abison it will probably remain among sportsmen. Of the general characteristics of the ox tribe, littleneed be stated. With the exception of a few stuntedisland forms, the members of the group are large andheavily-built animals, with a short and deep neck, amassive head, carried somewhat low, and frequently alarge dewlap on the throat and chest. The broad 52. Game Animals of India, etc. muzzle is devoid of hair, with a moist skin ; there areno glands on the face, on the legs, or between thehoofs ; and the cows have four teats. The horns(which, in common with those of all the members ofthe Bovid^^ form a transversely situated pair, andconsist of hollow sheaths of horn surmounting conicalbony cores arising from the skull) are present in bothsexes, and not very much smaller in the cows than inthe bulls. They are placed on or near the vertex ofthe skull, and are usually widely separated at the base.Their direction is at first more or less outwards, afterwhich they curve upwards, and generally more or lessinwards towards the tips. Although cylindrical in themore typical members of the group, in the buffaloesthey are distinctly triangular in cross-section ; andwhile in the former they are almost compl

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