BANTENG, OR JAVAN OX.—Bibos Banting. 
This animal is rather variable in colour, according to its age and sex, the old bulls 
being of a blackish-brown colour, and the females a reddish-bay. Upon the hinder 
quarters is always a bold patch of white, the inside of the ears and the lips are of the same 
hue, and the lower half of the legs is white. It isa tolerably large animal, the height 
of an adult bull being about five feet six inches at the shoulder. In spite of its 
constitutional shyness and its dread of man, it is domesticated by the inhabitants of 
Borneo, and is employed for many useful purposes. 
Larcest of all the existing members of the Ox tribe, is the GAUR, or GOUR, an animal 
which may be easily recognised by the extraordinary elevation of the spinal ridge and the 
peculiarly white “stockings.” The general colour of the Gaur is a deep brown, verging 
here and there upon black, the females being usually paler than their mates. The 
dimensions of the Gaur are very considerable, a full-grown bull having been known to 
measure six feet ten inches in height at the shoulders. The great height of the 
shoulder is partly,owing to the structure of the vertebre, some of which give out projections 
of sixteen inches in length. 
The Gaur associates in little herds of ten, twenty, or thirty in number, each herd 
generally consisting of a few males and a great comparative number of the opposite sex. 
These herds frequent the deepest recesses of the forest, and in their own domains bear 
supreme rule, neither tiger, rhinoceros, or elephant daring to attack them. During the 
heat of noonday, the Gaurs are buried in the thickest coverts, but in the early morning, 
and after the setting of the sun, they issue from their place of concealment, and go forth 
to pasture on the little patches of open verdure that are generally found even in the 
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