200 BÜBALUS MINDORENSIS. 



Philippines, ra'a procure un superbe crane de Buffie de 

 Mindoro. Malheureusemeut la preparation lui a fait perdre 

 les prémolaires supérieures : Ie maxillaire inférieur a ses 

 rangées molaires intactes. La taille de eet animal est tres 

 réduite; mais son caractère spécifique Ie plus interessant, 

 et qui frappe les yeux les moins exercés , est Ie peu d'ou- 

 *verture et la convergence finale des cornes. Elles sont d'uu 

 huffle pour tout Ie reste; j'entends d'un buffle sauvage. 

 C'est Ie commencement de la série générique dont Ie grand 

 Arni de l'Inde est la fin: un maximum et un minimum. Je 

 propose de nommer eet animal Bubalus mindorensis. 



Je ne puis accepter l'opinion de Gray (P. Z, S. 1878, 

 p. 882) rapportée par M. Bartlett, qui la partage , que eet 

 animal est une variété du buffle ordinaire." 



This very specimen in the Dominican College of Santo 

 Tomas has been examined in the same year 1888 by Prof. 

 J. B. Steere. He called the animal »ïamaron" and saw that 

 the head was that of a calf of the species and that the skin 

 of a young Buffalo had been used for the remainder of the 

 specimen, although he was not so certain of the latter'). 

 As he procured three full-grown individuals, he could give 

 a more detailed description , as taken from the animals 

 when first killed ^). 



The chief characteristics mentioned in Steere's descrip- 

 tion in P. Z. S. L. are the following: »a greyish-white stripe 

 running from near the inner corner of the eye towards the 

 base of the horn (this stripe three inches long hy one inch 

 wide), a greyish spot above each hoof on all feet and a 

 greyish-white patch on inner side of lower fore leg. General 

 colour of skin and hair black ^). Several of the last verte- 

 brae of the tail aborted." 



Somewhat different sounds Steere's description of the 

 same animals in his list of the year 1890, p. 29. We 



1) p. Z. S. L. 1888, p. 414. 



2) L. c. and Steere, a list of the birds and mammals collected by his ex- 

 pedition to the Philippines, 1890, p. 29. 



3) I italicize. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVI. 



