Game Animals of India, etc. 



with the tsaine or Burmese race of the bantin, in which 

 both sexes are fawn-coloured. 



If the foregoing data are trustworthy there seems to 

 be decisive evidence that the Malay sapi-utan is a distinct 

 form, although apparently a race of the bantin rather 

 than a ciistinct species. The skull from Perak referred 

 to above was presented by Mr. Robinson to the British 

 Museum, and has been made by myself^ the type of 

 the Malay race, with the name of Bos sondaicus hutleri. 



Assuming the specimens mentioned above to be 

 rightly identified, the most interesting feature about 

 the Malay bantin is the extremely small size of the 

 horns of the cows, for in this respect it appears to 

 connect the typical bantin with the extinct Bos etruscus 

 of the Upper Tertiary deposits of the Val d'Arno, in 

 which the cows are hornless. Bos etruscus was long 

 ago regarded by the late Professor Ratimeyer as nearly 

 related to B. sondaicus^ and the relationship now seems to 

 be made still closer. In fact, if the data are trustworthy, 

 the Malay sapi-utan seem to be the primitive type of 

 bantin, connecting those races in which the cows have 

 long horns with B. etruscus. This is in harmony with 

 the fact that the Malay fauna includes several survivors of 

 ancient types. 



THE YAK 



{Bos \_Poephagus~\ grunniens) 



Native Names. — Dong., Brong-dong (wild race), Fegu 

 (domesticated breed), Tibetan ; Yak., Ladaki and 

 IN North Kumaon ; Ban-choar., Hindustani \ 

 Kuch-gau., Punjabi ; Boku (old bull) and Kotass, 

 Kirghiz. 



(Plate ii, figs. 4, 4^) 



By the older naturalists the yak, or wild ox of 

 Tibet, was almost invariably spoken of as the grunting 



^ The Field, vol. cv. p. 151, 1905. 

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