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The Kou Prey is a very rare animal of the forest glades of north- 

 ern Cambodia, where it has been seen by very few hunters (Urbain, 

 1937a). The holotype is a male captured as a young animal in 

 1936 and brought in 1937 to the Zoological Park at Vincennes (Ur- 

 bain, 1939) . 



It is probably this same species to which P. Vitry refers (in litt., 

 December, 1936) under the native name of "Ngoua po." It is par- 

 ticularly a northern Cambodian animal, but apparently a few cross 

 the frontier into Laos in the vicinity of the Mekong River. It is 

 ashy gray in color, and its hoofs and horns differ from those of the 

 "Red Banteng," which is a far commoner animal. 



In a circular for hunting parties, privately printed in 1930, 

 Defosse referred to this species. It was informally described three 

 years later by R. Vittoz. At about this time a bull was secured by 

 A. V. Pietri "in Cambodia about 200 kilometers north of Saigon 

 near or not far from the Saigon-Kratie highway." In 1939 another 

 specimen was killed, probably in the same locality, by Ezra B. 

 Cornell. (Coolidge/ 1940, pp. 515-521.) 



An adult male, secured in 1939 near Samrong in eastern Cambodia 

 by F. Edmond-Blanc and A. V. Pietri, has been utilized as the main 

 basis for Coolidge's monograph (1940). 



"It is ... most essential that the Government of French Indo- 

 China should immediately recognize the importance of making every 

 effort to preserve this interesting and rare primitive wild bovid, and 

 especially to protect it against meat or trophy hunters and live- 

 animal dealers" (Coolidge, 1940, p. 423). 



Aurochs; European Wild Ox. Aurochs; Ur (Ger.) 



Bos PRIMIGENIUS Bojanus 



Bos primigenius Bojanus, Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Car., vol. 13, pt. 2, 

 p. 422, 1827. (Based upon the Pleistocene animal of northern Europe; 

 more particularly, according to Mertens (1906, p. 104), upon the nearly 

 complete skeleton excavated near Hassleben, north of Erfurt, Germany, 

 and preserved in the Jena Museum. It is questionable whether the name 

 primigenius is applicable to the Aurochs of historical times. It is perhaps 

 also debatable whether "Bos primigenius Bojanus" is a valid example 

 of binominal nomenclature, and not merely a descriptive term; Bojanus 

 does not seem to use it in the nominative case or to capitalize Bos.) 



FIGS.: Bojanus, op. cit., pi. 24; Griffith's Anim. Kingdom, vol. 4, pi. facing p. 

 410, 1827; Lydekker, 1898, p. 10, fig. 1; Keller, 1902, pp. 128-140, figs. 44-47; 

 Mertens, 1906, pp. 110-111, figs. 3, 5, 6, 8, 9; Lydekker, 1912, pi. 3; Natur 

 und Volk, vol. 66, no. 10, p. 511, fig. 1, p. 518, fig. 3, 1936; Schmidt, 

 1938, pi. 6. 



A special interest attaches to the Aurochs as a wild relative of 

 our domestic cattle. It has been extinct in its former European 

 range for more than three centuries. 



