. 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,' . r. In fact, if the data are trustworthy,the Malay sapi-utan seem to be the primitive type ofbantin, connecting those races in which the cows havelong horns with B. etruscus. This is in harmony withthe fact that the Malay fauna includes several survivors ofancient types. THE YAK {Bos \_Poephagus~\ grunniens) Native Names.—Dong., Brong-dong (wild race), Fegu(domesticated breed), Tibetan ; Yak., Ladaki andIN North Kumaon ; Ban-choar., Hindustani \Kuch-
. 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,' . r. In fact, if the data are trustworthy,the Malay sapi-utan seem to be the primitive type ofbantin, connecting those races in which the cows havelong horns with B. etruscus. This is in harmony withthe fact that the Malay fauna includes several survivors ofancient types. THE YAK {Bos \_Poephagus~\ grunniens) Native Names.—Dong., Brong-dong (wild race), Fegu(domesticated breed), Tibetan ; Yak., Ladaki andIN North Kumaon ; Ban-choar., Hindustani \Kuch-gau., Punjabi ; Boku (old bull) and Kotass,Kirghiz. (Plate ii, figs. 4, 4^) By the older naturalists the yak, or wild ox ofTibet, was almost invariably spoken of as the grunting ^ The Field, vol. cv. p. 151, The Yak ox ; and so far as the domesticated breeds (from whichthe original description was taken) are concerned, theattribute in question is distinctive of the species. Itappears, however, that the grunting is confined tothese domesticated breeds ; and it has, therefore, beenproposed to regard the latter as a distinct species,. Fig. g.—Parti-coloured and White Domesticated Yak at Wobiirn Abbey, from aphotograph by the Duchess of Bedford. under the name of mutus. This seems an unnecessaryrefinement, and the most that would be justifiable inthis direction would be to designate the wild race asBos grunniens mutus. ; it is true that such a combina-tion of names would involve a contradiction, butsuch inconsistencies are not regarded as important bynaturalists. Structurally the yak appears to be closely allied tothe bisons, of which group it may be regarded as an 11
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