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relatively longer, the head much more elongate and antelope-like, the ridge 

 on the withers less developed, and not forming a distinct hump, the dewlap 

 smaller, the forehead flat, and in old males bearing a rugose horny shield 

 between the bases of the horns. The tail well tutted, and reaching below 

 the hocks. Horns comparatively small and slender, in adults flattened at 

 the base, from which they at first curve outwards and upwards, but towards 

 the tip somewhat backwards and inwards ; in young animals cylindrical 

 throughout. General colour of young males and females at all ages red- 

 brown, approaching chestnut, and becoming much lighter on the under 

 parts, which may be white, or whitish, as are the inner sides of the legs, 

 the inner surfaces of the ears, and the lips ; legs of adults from above the 

 knees and hocks to the hoofs white or whitish ; females, and generally 

 the males, with a large white patch on the buttocks, surrounding, but not 

 including, the base of the tail ; adult males with the upper-parts varying 

 from blackish-brown, with the aforesaid white rump-patch, to a uniform 

 dark reddish-brown. Young with the outer side of the leg chestnut 

 throu-ghout its length, and a dark streak down the middle of the back. 



There are few members of the present group of animals about which 

 our information is more incomplete than it is in the present case ; and our 

 museums are sadly deficient in specimen. In addition to a skeleton and 

 numerous skulls, the species is represented in the National Collection by 

 a mounted bull from Java, from which much of the hair has been rubbed 

 off by handling, a mounted head from Burma, and an immature mounted 

 bull, also Burmese. In spite of this deficiency of information, at least two 

 very distinct races are recognisable. 



The banting (the tsaing of the Burmese, and the sapi-utan of the 

 Malays) will breed freely with domestic cattle, and is itself kept in a 

 more or less domesticated condition by various native tribes of the Malay 

 countries. It was to a half-bred race that the name Bos kucoprymmis was 

 applied by Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard, and it is for this reason that the 



