Anoa 





of the neck, the back, in front of the eyes, and on the sides of the lower 

 jaw, while the inner sides of the cannon-bones may also be white, as are 

 the inner surfaces of the ears ; under-parts generally light brown. Old bulls 

 from which the hair has almost disappeared have the skin as black as in 

 the Indian buftalo. In the lower jaw there are frequently only two lower 

 premolar teeth, although there may be three of these teeth, as in almost 

 all other Bovuiie. Although the occipital surface has not the prominent 



Fig. 26. — Head of Bull Aiioa, from a living specimen. (Rowland Ward, Reiords of Bis; Game.) 



crest found in adults ot the larger buffaloes, when compared with that of a 

 young Indian buffalo the skull is almost identical, the resemblance being 

 carried even to the continuation of the vomer as far back as the hinder 

 margin of the palate. As in the tamarau and other buffiloes, the number 

 of pairs of ribs is usually thirteen, although one instance of the presence of 

 fourteen pairs has been recorded by Dr. Heller. 



The difference between an anoa skull and that of an adult Indian 

 buffalo is probably in part due to the inferiority in the size of the present 

 species, since it is an established fact that the smaller representatives of a 

 group tend to retain the generalised features of the ancestral type which 



