36 Oxen 



3. The Banting — Bos sondaicus 



Bos leucoprynnnis^ Qi-'oy ^"cl Gaimard, Voyage dc F Astrolabe — Zool. vol. i. 

 p. 140 (1830). 



Bos sondaicus, Miiller and Schlegel, J'crhandl. Ncderland Ges. vol. i. 

 p. 195, pis. xxxv.-xxxix. (1840); Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal^ vol. xi. p. 445 

 (1842), xxxi. p. 336 (1862); Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 593, Fauna 

 Brit. India — Ma mm. p. 489 (1891); W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Imi. A/«j-. pt. 

 ii. p. 127 (1891); Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. Paris., vol. xxxviii. p. 13 (1891); 

 Hose, Mammals of Borneo, p. 64 (1893); Kvans, Journ. Bombay Soc. vol. x. 

 p. 78 (1895); ^^'^I'd, Records of Big Game, p. 278 (1896); Wood, Zoologist, 

 ser. 4, vol. i. p. 489 (1897); Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 277; Pollok, 

 Zoologist, ser. 4, vol. ii. p. i (1898). 



Bos banteng, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugetbiere, vol. iv. p. 517 (1844). 



Bos banting, Sundevall, A'. Sve/ishi Vet. Ak. Handl. for i 844, p. 152 ( i 846). 



Bibos banting. Gray, Knows ley Menagerie, p. 48 (1850), Cat. Ungulata 

 Brit. Mus. p. 35 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 13 (1872); 

 Horsfield, Cat. E. Ind. Mus. p. 183 (1851) ; Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. 

 vol. XX. p. 125, pi. ii. (1898). 



Gavc^us sondaicus, Blyth, "Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxix. p. 296 

 (i860); MacMaster, Notes on Jerdon, p. 131 (1870); Sterndale, Mamm. 

 Ind. p. 488 (1884). 



Bibos sondaicus, Riitimeyer, Denkschr. sclnceiz. Ges. vol. xxii. part 2, art. 3, 

 p. 170 (1867), Abh. sclnvei-z. pal. Ges. vol. v. p. 189 (1878); P. L. Sclater, 

 List Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 134 (1883). 



Plate III. 



Characters. — Height ranging from 5 feet to at least 5 feet 9 inches at 

 the withers ; build lighter than in the two preceding species, with the legs 



