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the British Museum, and at once shows the distinctness of these 

 two species. 



3. ANOA. 



Horns subtrigonal, nearly parallel, round at the tip, depressed 

 at the base, and slightly keeled on the inner edge, straight, nearly 

 on the plane of the face on the hinder edge of the frontal ridge. 

 Intermaxillary elongate, high up between the maxillae and the 

 nasal. Muffle large, rather narrow below. Hoofs very broad. 

 Ears small, narrow, short. Tail elongate, tufted at the end. Hair 

 of the back, from the nape to the pelvis, reversed. Skull, t. 3. 

 f.1,2. 



Anoa, Leach-, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 182; Sundevall, Pe- 



cora, 74. 



Antilope, Anoa, Fischer, Syn. Mam. 647. 

 Bubalus, sp., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 

 Bos, sp., Meyen; Gray, Spic. Zool. 



Mr. Turner observes : " Although Major Smith was deceived 

 as to the affinities of the Anoa, later as well as earlier naturalists 

 have assigned it to its true place, and a glance at the stuffed spe- 

 cimen in the British Museum leaves the matter beyond a doubt. 

 I have examined the skull in the Museum of the College of Sur- 

 geons, and cannot see that it has even a title to generic distinc- 

 tion. Naturalists seem at all times to have been prone to assign 

 generic rank to whatever was mysterious or difficult to classify, 

 and I can in no other way account for this species being made a 

 genus." Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. Mr. Turner must have ob- 

 served the skull very superficially, for it offers many characters, 

 especially in the palate, which separate it from the Buffaloes and 

 all the other Bovea, t. 3. f. 1, 2. 



1. ANOA DEPRESSICORNIS. The ANOA. 



Reddish brown, with three small white spots on the cheek. 

 Male black, spot on cheek white. Female and young brownish 

 black. 



Antilope (Anoa) depressicornis, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 293. t. . 



v. 867; Gray, Spicil. Zool. t. 11. f. 23; Fischer, Syn. 647. 

 Antilope depressicornis, Quoy et Gaim. Ann. Sci. Nat. xvii. 623. 



t. 20 ; Voy. Astrol Zool. i. 136. t. 26 ; Ferussac, Bull. Sci. 



xix. 108 ; Lesson, comp. Bujfon, x. 299. t. 65. f. 2. 

 ? Anoa compressicornis, Leach, MSS. 

 Antilope depressicornis, Leach ; Gray, Spic. Zool. t. 1 1 . f. 23 ; 



H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 867. t. 181. f. 4, head. 

 Antilope platyceros et Antilope Celebica, Temm. Mus. Ley den. 

 Bos bubalis ft. Anoa, Penn. Quad.26; Meyer, Zool. Arch. 184, 1796. 



