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Oxen 



name is not employed as the designation of the species. The late acquisi- 

 tion of the blackish colour by the adult males of the typical race, and the 

 permanent retention of the red by both sexes of the second race and by 

 the cows of both, as well as the slighter and smaller horns, point to this 

 species being a less specialised type than either the gayal or the gaur ; 

 and it is not improbably a near relation ot the extinct Etruscan ox 

 described below: — 



The following horn-measurements of this species are recorded by Mr. 

 Rowland Ward : — 



Distrihi/tion. — ^_Java, Borneo, probably Sumatra, Bali, the Malay Pen- 

 insula, Burma as hir as Northern Pegu and Arakan, thence apparently 

 through the hills to the east of Chittagong to Manipur, Siam, and 

 probably other parts of the adjacent districts. 



Very little has been recorded of the habits of the Javan race ot the 

 banting, but some notes are given below relating to those of the Burmese 

 and Manipur races. Mr. Blanford remarks that, from the greater pro- 

 portionate length of its limbs, the banting is probably less addicted to 

 climbing rocky hills than the gaur, and is more restricted to the plains 

 of high grass ; and this is confirmed by the observations recorded below. 



