Game Animals of India, etc. 



bulls is dark chestnut, appearing darker in some lights 

 than in others, and shading off into light brown below. 

 The face, as exemplified by one mounted head in the 

 British Museum, is tawny grey, with a light chestnut 

 patch some distance above the muzzle ; the margin 

 of the lips and the inner surface ot the ears being 

 whitish, and the muzzle blackish. The head of a bull 

 shot by the late Mr. C. W. A. Bruce in Upper Burma 

 is very similar, but more uniformly tawny. Very old 

 bulls may apparently become darker. With the ex- 

 ception that the upper part of the fore-legs is darkish 

 grey, the rest of the coloration is similar to that of 

 the typical race. Young bulls, in which the white 

 markings are less distinct, are lighter and brighter in 

 colour. At all ages the cows are bright reddish 

 chestnut, with the face somewhat paler than the back, 

 especially on the forehead, round the eyes, and near 

 the muzzle, where, like the under-parts and the lower 

 portion of the legs, it becomes dirty white. The 

 specimens of which the height has been recorded do 

 not run so large as the typical Javan race, a bull 

 standing 5 feet 4^ inches, and a cow 5 feet i inch at 

 the withers. In the notes quoted below it will be seen 

 that there are considerable variations from the above 

 type of coloration. 



The Burmese race of the bantin is found in Burma, 

 Pegu, and Arakan, whence it may perhaps extend 

 northwards to the hill ranges east of Chittagong. 

 Bantin also occur in Manipur, but these, as mentioned 

 below, may belong to another race. For accounts of 

 the Burmese bantin 1 am indebted to Major Evans, 

 and Mr. C. W. A. Bruce, the latter of whom wrote 

 in the Asian newspaper of October 10, 1899, under 

 the initials C. W. A. B. as follows : — 



The Burmese distinguish three varieties of tsaine, 

 viz. — (a) The common light-red bulls and chestnut 

 cows called by them Tsaine Bya. (J?) Dark chocolate 

 bulls and cows darker chestnut than in variety {a) ; 



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