MAMMALIA. 35 



The beef of the Gour is unequalled for flavour and tenderness ; 

 but to the Aborigines only is it illicit food, and not to all tribes 

 of them; nor are any of them allowed to kill it in Hindu kingdoms. 



Capt. Tickell, a good observer, believes there are two species 

 of Bibos in the Chola Nagpoor territories alone. Hodgson, I. c. 

 24. 



Mr. Hodgson appears to think the Bibos found beyond the 

 Brahmaputra is a different species. 



Mr. Elliot's account of the habit of those found in the Deccan 

 differs in several particulars from that given by Mr. Hodgson. 



3. BIBOS BANTING. The BANTING. 



Black, distinct large spot on rump and legs white. Calf pale 

 brown, with a dorsal streak, widest behind, and tip of tail black ; 

 rump and legs like back, not white, as in the adult. 



Bos Banting, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. 



Bos Taurus var. 3, subvar. 1. Banting, Sundevall, Pecora, 201. 



Bos leucoprymnus, Quoy fy Gaim. Zool. Astrol. i. 140, 1830 ; 



Lesson, Compl. Bujfbn, x. 319. 



Bos (Taurus) leucoprymnus, Lesson, Nov. Tab. Reg. Anim. 185. 

 Bos frontalis, part., Fischer, Syn. Mam. 550. 

 Bos bantiger, Temm. Mus. Leyden. 



Bos Sondaicus, Muller, Nederl. Verhand. i. 45. t. 35, 39. 

 Sumatran Ox. Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. ; Lesson, Compl. 



Buffon, x. 315. 

 Hob. Java. Borneo. Bali. 



Stuffed male. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 

 Skin of female. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



OSTEOLOGY. Bos Sondaicus, Nederl. Verhand. i. t. 36, 39. 

 Skeleton of male and female. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



ANAT. Muller, Verhand. Ind. Arch. t. 37, 38, 39. 



b. Bisons. Covered with short, crisp wool ; shoulder higher than 

 the haunches; cannon-bone of the hind-leg longer than the 

 fore. Ribs fourteen or ff teen pairs. 



Bison, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 1849. 



5. BISON. 



Muffle short and scarcely reaching the hinder edge of the nos- 

 trils, as wide as the space behind the inner edge of the nostrils. 

 Horns round, rather depressed at the base, lateral, coming out 

 before the ridge of the occiput, curved upwards and outwards. 



