MEASUREMENT OF THE FORMOSAN BUFFALO. 



By 

 HiDEOKi Yanagawa, NogakiisJii. 



(Government Stock-Farm, Koshun, Formosa.) 



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During my extended travels through the Philippine Islands in 191 2 and 

 1913, I saw a great many carabaos or water buffaloes there, especially in the 

 Islands of Mindanao and Luzon. Except the Mindoro timarau, which I had no 

 chance to see, most of the native buffaloes seemed to be identical with our 

 Formosan breed, that is Bubalus biiffebis var. sondaica Miiller et Schlegel \ 

 In size, however, they were generally larger than ours. The measurement was 

 done after the method of Werner. *^ 



i) "Werner's Rinderzucht. II. Aufl. S. 6. 

 2) .1 c. S. 144. 



