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Oxen 



Bidmliis ikpresslconiis. Turner, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1850, p. 178 ; Flower 

 and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. Coll. Surg. pt. ii. p. 228 (1884). 



Prohiibalus cc/cbc/isis, Riitimeyer, Verhandl. Ges. Basel, ser. 2, vol. iv. 

 p. 334 (1865), Doikschr. schweiz. Ges. vol. xxii. part 2, art. 3, p. 52 (1867). 



Buhalus [A)ioa) depressicorms, Riitimeyer, Denkschr. sc/iweiz. Ges. vol. 

 xxii. part 2, art. 3, p. 26 (1867); Hoffmann,^/;//. Mas. Dresden, 1887, No. 

 3, p. 26. 



Vrobuhalus [Anoa] celehensis, Riitimever, Ahh. scfnverz. pal. Ges. vol. v. 

 p. 189 (1878). 



Bos depressicornis, Brehm, Tierleben — Sdiigethiere, vol. iii. p. 448 (1891) ; 

 Flower and Lydekker, 5Wy of Mammals, p. 361 (1891) ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mas. pt. ii. p. 130 (1891). 



Plate X. Fig. 2. 



Characters. — Size verv small, the height at the shoulder being about 

 3 feet 3 inches ; limbs rather short, body plump, neck thick, and withers 

 rather higher than the hind-quarters. Horns ot male of moderate length, 

 arising far below the plane of the occiput, ringed and triangular at the base, 

 nearly straight, and directed upwards and outwards nearly in the plane of 

 the forehead, with the tips sharply pointed. Ears small, well haired at 

 the bases, but becoming almost naked at the tips, and with a tuft of long 

 white hair on the inner side. Tail reaching about to the hocks. In 

 young animals the skin ot the body covered thickly with somewhat woolly 

 hair, which becomes gradually more and more sparse with advancing age, 

 until in old individuals it is almost completely bare ; hair of middle line of 

 back reversed from the occiput to the haunches, as in the Indian buffalo 

 and tamarau. In young animals the general colour of the hair yellowish- 

 brown ; in adults the colour varving from dark brown to blackish, often 

 with white spots in front of the lateral hoofs, on the throat, the hinder part 



