This last remark is due to A. B.
[The first part of this word is thera, Skt. sthavira. Hardy (E. Monachism, p. 11) says the superior priests were called térunnánses, from Pali thero, "an elder.">[
Ποηφάγος, whence no doubt Gray took his name for the genus.
The tails usually brought for sale are those of the tame Yak, and are white. The tail of the wild Yak is black, and of much greater size.