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During my journey I only saw the tracks in the great forests 

 north of Muang Pré. 



Mr. Emil Eisenhofer presented me a fine head and he 

 told me that this specimen had been killed by a Laos hunter 

 in the forests surrounding Bång Hue Horn the year before 

 my arrival. 



The Banteng seems to be most common in the hill-tracts 

 along the Burmese frontier, where the Siamese town of 

 Raheng is said to be a fine headquarter for the hunting of 

 wild cattle in the surrounding forests. 



I have referred the head presented to me by Mr. Eisen- 

 hofer to the subspecific form of Bos banteng porteri. The 

 type specimen was shot by Mr. Porter, but I don't know the 

 exact locality where it was shot. Shortly afterwards another 

 specimen was shot by Mr. G. F. W. Elwes, and as Mr. 

 Elwes is living in Raheng I believe the specimen was ob- 

 tained in the neighbourhood of that town. 



From Burma another subspecies has been described under 

 the name of Bos banteng birmanicus Lydekker. 1 And it 

 seems rather curious that two different forms are to be 

 found so close to each other. Unfortunately Mr. Elwes, 

 who had been mauled by a wounded tiger, was in England 

 when I was out in Siarn so I could not see him to argue 

 the question about the distribution of the different races of 

 the Banteng in Siarn. 



Bos banteng porteri is distinguished from Bos banteng bir- 

 manicus in having the tawny-coloured hair flecked all över 

 with small white spöts while there is no flecking recorded 

 in the Burmese race. The horns of the first-mentioned spe- 

 cies are of the general type of those of B. b. birmanicus but 

 very heavily ridged at the base. 



This last characteristic agrees well with the horns from 

 the Bång Hue Horn specimen which are heavily ridged at 

 the base. 



When my friend Doctor Högbom passed through the 

 town of Muang Nan in North-eastern Siarn he was informed 

 by some Europeans that a specimen of Banteng — which 

 was called by them »red cattle» instead of the typical name 

 of wild cattle» — should occur a few days travelling west 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898 p. 277. 



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