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5> other fossils he found bones of an ^noa, which should have 

 » attained the size of a goat, and probably will turn out 

 »to be no other dwarf-buffalo than the small santeng , 

 » whereof the Javanese talk , and which differs from all 

 » other known living and fossil species." 



Now everyone will be very anxious to hear more con- 

 cerning the santeng and therefore I will reproduce what 

 Dr. Dubois wrote to me: »I found small horn-cores, 

 measuring ±10 cm., which I at first regarded as belonging 

 to a Capra-species ; having however now found rather 

 large parts of frontlets with the same mentioned horn- 

 cores attached to it, it seems to me that they are im- 

 planted like in the typical bovine-skulls. The fore-head is 

 about half as broad as the same part in a middle sized 

 karbouw. The animal attained , I think , the size of a ffoat. 

 Now I recollect having been told by several Javanese of 

 a very small species of banteng — and again inquiring 

 some old men assured me that they had see7i the animal. 

 A Wedono drew the head with the horns , whereby it 

 struck me that he was not brought to confusion by my remark 

 that the horns were bent downward , he drew the horns 

 upward and said that the color of the animal is black , 

 excepting the legs which are white: size somewhat larger 

 than kanchil. Highly interesting is that all the reports 

 agree in the main points , f. i. as to the form of the 

 horns, generally described as that of the fruit of a lom- 

 bok (red pepper) — and that they accord , as far as it 

 seems to me , with the fossil form. I think the small size 

 ascribed to the animal to be a common exaggeration , like 

 all relating originating from a not fresh source. This pa- 

 radoxical animal generally is known under the name san- 

 teng and I therefore think to do homage to the Javan 

 mind to natural history in calling the fossil animal later 

 on Anoa santeng. The form of horns and of molars and 

 its size make it namely very probable that it belongs 

 truly to the same genus as the Celebiau species." 



So far Dr. Dubois. Although it may be that he is quite 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseutn, Vol. XIII. 



