

MEASUREMENT OF THE FORMOSAN BUFFALO. 



By 



HiDEOKi Yanagawa, Nogakuski. 



(Government Stock-Farm, Koshun, Formosa.) 



tR 4^ CO 11 MiJ t: Ü ^ 

 g m ± m ill ^ m 



During my extended travels through the Philippine Islands in 1912 and 

 1913, I saw a great many carabaos or water buffaloes there, especially in the 

 Islands of Mindanao and Luzon. Except the Mindoro timarau, which I had no 

 chance to see, most of the native buffaloes seemed to be identical with our 

 Formosan breed, that is Bubalus buffelus var. sondalca Müller et Schlegel \ 

 In size, however, they were generally larger than ours. The measurement was 

 done after the method of Werner. '^ 



1) Werner's Rinderzucht. II. Aufl. S. 6. 



2) .1 c S. 144. 



