Game Animals of India, etc. 



ability that these are subspecifically distinct from the 

 Burmese animal. 



For information with regard to the Manipur bantin 

 I am indebted to Captain H. S. Wood, who states 

 that the bulls stand about 5 feet at the shoulder, and 

 are red at all ages, while they show no white patch on 

 the buttocks, although this is fully developed in the 

 cows. The bulls have comparatively small ears ; and 

 their general colour is dark, red, passing into greyish 

 white on the face, the under surface of the body, and 

 the inside of the legs. They have no dark streak 

 running down the back ; the front of the fore -legs 

 above the knee iS' reddish black ; the tip and front 

 margin of the ^ars are deep velvety black ; the eye is 

 encircled with a greyish white ring ; while the front 

 and sides of the upper part of the head are tawny white, 

 the nakeci muzzle being greyish black. In the cows 

 the ears are larger, and the general colour of the upper- 

 parts light red, with a dark streak running down the 

 middle of the back, but no black on the ears or the 

 front of the fore-legs. The under surface of the body, 

 the legs from the knees and hocks to the hoofs, and 

 the rump-patch are pure white. A cow measured by 

 Captain Wood stood 4 feet 10 inches at the withers. 



If the absence of the white rump-patch be a constant 

 feature in the bulls, and the presence of a dark dorsal 

 streak an equally distinctive feature of the cows, there 

 would seem little doubt as to the racial distinctness 

 of the Manipur bantin. Skins of both sexes of the 

 Burmese and the Manipuri bantin are much needed ; 

 and until these are available the distinctive features and 

 the range of colour-variation in either cannot be properly 

 determined. 



Although the bantin is represented in parts of the 

 Malay Peninsula, it appears to be very scarce and 

 local ; and there are no skins available for comparison. 

 According to the late Mr. W. Davison [Proc. Zoo/. 

 Soc. 1889, p. 448), a bull from the Malay Peninsula, 



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