882 MR. A. D. BARTLETT ON ANOA DEPRESSICORNIS. [Nov. 19, 



could not be closely inspected), a Buffalo, small in size, with rather 

 straight horns bent backwards, with not much hair on the skin, 

 which was of a light greyish colour. There was no similarity to 

 the Anoa from Celebes, which I had seen the year before at Menado, 

 as regards colour, skin, size, or horns. 



" The • Tamarao ' is said to live only on Mindoro. The wild Buffalo 

 of Luzon does not differ much from the tame one. The name for 

 Buffalo in the Tagaloe language of Luzon is Anooang, the same as 

 for Anoa depressicomis in South Celebes. (In the Pampanga 

 language of Luzon, 'Damulag' means buffalo. For a wild Buffalo 

 they say on Luzon ' Karabao cimarron,' ' cimarrou ' being a 

 Spanish expression for wild.) 



" When back in Europe in the same year, I looked together with 

 the late Dr. Gray through the galleries of the British Museum for 

 this ' Tamarao,' but in vain ; we could not find it. 



" In the gallery of the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, I saw this 

 autumn a skeleton of a small Buffalo from Timor, brought home by 

 the * Astrolabe,' and labelled Bubalus seligniceros, which reminded 

 me of the ' Tamarao ' of Mindoro, as I mentioned to Prof. Gervais, 

 who kindly accompanied me, telling him also of its supposed affinity 

 to the Anoa. 



"Of course I cannot depend on the alleged identity of the stuffed 

 Buffalo in the Museum of the Dominicans in Manilla with the 

 ' Tamarao ' of Mindoro ; and, also, my inspection of this specimen 

 was scientifically not sufficient ; but I hope to be able to throw 

 some light on this question very soon, as a skull of the real 

 * Tamarao ' from Mindoro will be in my hands in a few days, as I 

 bought some time ago for the Dresden Museum Professor Semper's 

 Mammalian collection from the Philippines, which contains such a 

 skull. I therefore shall soon recur to the subject. 



" I take this occasion to remark that there exists on the island of 

 Balabac, Philippines, a species of Tragulus, specimens of which I 

 have seen living at the Government House in Cebii ; but, having 

 no books with me, I could not make out whether it differs from Tra- 

 gulus kanchil or not. " Tours very sincerely, 



"A.'B. Meyer." 



" Zoological Society's Gardens, 



Kegent's Park, Loudon, N.W. 



November 18, 1878. 



" Dear Sir, — About thirty years since, a collector of natural- 

 history specimens, named Napper, wrote to me from the Philippines 

 to say that there existed on the island of Mindanao or Mindoro, a 

 small kind of Buffalo extremely wild and difficult to obtain. I 

 engaged him to obtain specimens ; and after much trouble and expense 

 he sent me an adult bull, a cow, and calf that he had shot and 

 skinned. They were offered by me to Dr. Gray for the British 

 Museum, who declined them, as he was of opinion they were only 

 small varieties of the common Manilla or Water-Buffalo ; and this 

 was my own opinion, and that also of every one who saw them. I 



