42- 



Oxen 



horny plate between the horns fully developed, in the British Museum ; 

 the rest of the description being taken from the memoir by Vet.-Capt. 

 Evans quoted on p. :^6. The British Museum possesses a younger bull, 

 in which the horny plate on the crown of the head has only Just com- 

 menced to be apparent on the line of the back of the base ot the horns. 



Fig. 6. — Head ot male Burmese Banting. From the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898. 



Col. Pollok ' writes that bulls of this race are deep red, with a white 

 rump-patch, although verv old ones mav be coffee-coloured. 



Distribution. — Burma, Pegu, and Arakan ; possibly extending southwards 

 to the Malay Peninsula, and perhaps northwards to the ranges eastward ot 

 Chittagong. 



Habits. — The Burmese tsai ng, according to \''et.-Capt. Evans, is to be 

 met in most parts ot the country where suitable grazing and covert occur. 

 They generally go about in small parties numbering from eight to a dozen 



' Zoologist, scr. 4, vol. ii. p. 2 (1898). 



