Le grand et le petit gibier de l'Inde, la Birmanie, et le Tibet . domesticatedbreeds (dont la description originale a été prise) sont concernés, l'attribut en question est très distinctif de l'animal. Ing-Accord, cependant, pour les comptes de naturalistes modernes et les voyageurs,les grognements pratique est strictement limité à la races domestiquées, le Yak sauvage poussant pas d'un tel son. Il a donc été proposé de considérer ce dernier comme une espèce distincte, sous le nom de mut//s ; butthis semble tout à fait inutile d'un raffinement dans la nomenclature, et le mostthat serait justifiable dans ce sens je

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The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . domesticatedbreeds (from which the original description was taken) are concerned, the attribute in question is very distinctive of the animal. Accord-ing, however, to the accounts of modern naturalists and travellers, the grunting practice is strictly confined to the domesticated breeds, the wild yak uttering no such sound. It has, therefore, been proposedto regard the latter as a distinct species, under the name of mut//s ; butthis seems a quite unnecessary refinement in nomenclature, and the mostthat would be justifiable in this direction would be to designate the The Yak 65 wild race as Bos gri/iiiiieiis mutiis. It is true that such a combinationof names would involve a contradiction ; but such little inconsistenciesare not regarded as matters ot any importance by modern naturalists. By sportsmen the Tibetan wild ox is almost invariably spoken ofby one or other of its native names ; and so far, so good. But if theywere determined, as they are, to use the name bison for any of the wild. Fig. 7 —Parti-coloured and WIhil D micstR Utd ik 111 the Ptrk u Uomim Ibbt^From a photogriph b tht DiRliLbb of Bedford cattle of India and the neighbouring countries, it should have been tothe yak instead of to the gaur that this term should have been applied.For, as a matter of fact, the yak appears to be very closely allied indeedto the bisons, of which group it is best regarded as an aberrant memberspecially modified by its long isolation and the high elevation at whichit lives. How great is the elevation above the sea-level at which this animalordinarily dwells in the wild state is probably but very imperfectly 66 Great and Small Game of India, etc. realised by the great majority of persons ; and it may perhaps assist theimagination to state that if the Tibetan plateau were at the summit ofa cliff rising sheer up from the sea-shore, a yak looking over the edgeof the cliif would be about four miles above the level of the sea