Javan Banting 39 



a. Javan Race — Bos sondaicus typicus 



Characters. — Size large, the height at the shoulder reaching to 5 feet 

 9^ inches, or perhaps more. Old bulls deep blackish -brown or black 

 on the upper-parts, with a large white rump-patch, and the face coloured 

 like the back ; somewhat younger bulls very dark chocolate-brown ; 

 young bulls and cows bright red-brown, also with the rump-patch and 

 lower part of the legs white ; tip of inner surface ot ear and a line on the 

 lips white. 



This race is represented in the British Museum by the bull from Java 

 already mentioned, which is one of the specimens obtained at the same 

 time as the type. Where the hair still remains, it is very dark chocolate- 

 brown, becoming nearly black a little above the knees, but as the colour 

 has doubtless faded considerably, it is probable that it was originally almost 

 black. As mounted, the specimen stands about 5 teet 3 inches at the 

 shoulder. I had an opportunity ot seeing the heads ol two bulls from 

 Borneo in 1898 which were almost completely black, with the exception 

 of the above-mentioned white markings, but showed a tendency to rufous 

 just below the eyes. 



The late Mr. W. Davison, in a note in the Proceedings ot the Zoological 

 Society for 1889 (p. 448) on the wild cattle of the Malay Peninsula, refers 

 to one species under its native name of sapio, his description being as 

 follows : — " It is black, but has the belly, the inner sides of both fore and 

 hind legs, and stockings chestnut ; the gray patch [ot the gaur] on the 

 forehead is rusty, and the insides ot the ears are strongly tinged with 

 chestnut. I have seen an old bull, standing over 18 hands, with massive 

 horns, coloured thus ; and the other day Dr. E. A. Travers shot in Jelebu 

 a young bull almost exactly the size of the sladang (gaur) now sent, and it 

 was coloured exactly like the large bull. The quite young of this form 



