The Burmese Bantin, or Tsaine 



apparently referable to B. sondaicus^ had the lower part 

 of the legs reddish instead of white. 



In 1905 I received from Mr. H. C. Robinson, 

 curator of the Selangor State Museum, the skull of a 

 reputed wild ox from the Malay Peninsula, characterised 

 by very small horns (some 6 inches in length). It 

 belonged to an animal shot by Capt. J. C. Lamprey, 

 of the Malay States Guides, in Perak ; and is figured 

 in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 

 vol. xiii. p. 192 (1900). The animal was lost when 

 fired at (in the evening), but the carcase was found 

 two days later partially devoured by a tiger. Capt. 

 Lamprey described its colour as rich reddish chest- 

 nut, with no white rump-patch, but with blackish 

 " stockings " and muzzle. 



When describing this specimen in the journal cited 

 Mr. H. L. Butler, then curator of the Selangor 

 Museum, expressed the opinion that it could not 

 belong to any known race of bantin, and also quoted 

 an extract from a work published in 1858 to the effect 

 that the Malay bantin has no rump-patch and very small 

 horns, although not unlike in other respects to the 

 domesticated bantin of Bali. A young cow, stated to 

 be 6 feet 2 inches at the shoulder (!), is described as 

 brown in colour with dirty white feet. 



If, as seems probable. Captain Lamprey's specimen 

 is a female both the above descriptions refer to cows. 

 In Davison's description of the bull the general colour 

 is said to be blackish, with reddish stockings ; the 

 horns are stated to be large, and no mention is made 

 of a white rump-patch. 



The available evidence thus points to the conclusion 

 that the Malay bantin has no white rump-patch, and 

 " stockings " varying in colour from dirty white to 

 blackish or reddish, while the females have very small 

 horns. In that the old bulls are stated to be dark- 

 coloured, and the young and cows rufous, the descrip- 

 tion accords with the Javan and Bornean rather than 



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