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FAUNA OF THE MALAY ISLANDS AND PHILIPPINES 



the shoulder. In many respects it forms a transition from the Indian species to 

 the small and more aberrant pigmy buffalo, or anoa {B. depressicornis), of Celebes. 

 The latter stands about 39 inches high, and is slightly lower at the withers than at 

 the hind-quarters. The small triangular horns are set much more upright and are 

 much less curved than in the Indian buffalo : their length is seldom more than a 

 foot even in the bulls. In colour the anoa is either reddish yellow or black in 



THE ANOA. 



youth, when it has a thick coat of woolly hair, but dark blackish brown in old age, 

 the under-parts being always paler ; there are sometimes two white spots on each 

 cheek, and white markings on the legs, and the whole animal much resembles a 

 young Indian buffalo. Although it apparently presents signs of affinities to the 

 antelopes, it is essentially, alike in colour, structure, and habits, a buffalo, although 

 less specialised than the typical members of that group. 



The deer of the Malay Islands include the rusa or Javan sambar 

 (Cervus hippelaphus) of Java, with local races in the Moluccas and 

 Timor, the Luzon race of the sambar (C. nnicolor phUippinus), the Basilan race 



Deer. 



