MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 193 
and curved inwards, tipped with black. The forehead is flat with a tuft of 
long hairs on it, particularly on the bulls, The back is curved, the highest 
point being about the centre, The total height of the animal killed from 
hoof to spine of dorsal vertebre was 6 feet 2 inches, The hair was smooth 
and silky, of a brown colour, except on the feet which were dirty white. 
A mane about 2 inches long ran along the spine. There was no dewlap.”’ 
The words “ particularly on the bulls” are important, implying that the 
writer, who says the “Sapi” has no white rump patch, had shot or seen 
bulls as well as cows, 
Secondly ,—according to Mr, Lydekker (Royal Natural History, Vol. II, p. 
181,) the Malays describe the “Sapi’” as having ferruginous-red instead of 
white on the legs. I believe that years ago Mr. Davison described such an 
animal in the P.Z.S., though I have been unable to look up this reference, 
Thirdly —about two months ago in Perak, Captain J. C. Lamprey, of the 
Malay States Guides, fired at a “ Sapi” in the dusk of an evening and appar- 
ently missed, Two days later, while following its tracks, he came upon the 
carcase of the animal, which had in the meantime been killed by a tiger, Cap- 
tain Lamprey described this animal to me shortly afterwards as being entirely 
of a rich, reddish-chestnut colour, with no white rump patch and with blackish 
“ stockings” and muzzle, On these points he was absolutely positive. As 
to the sex he was uncertain, the tiger having commenced its meal between 
the thighs, 
Unfortunately Captain Lamprey preserved nothing but the skull of this 
specimen, which he kindly let me have for the Museum, It appears to me 
to be that of a cow. I enclose two photographs of it which show the 
slightly convex forehead very distinctly. 
If the above evidence proves nothing, it at least serves to show the want of 
further information about the ‘Sapi’ or Banting of the Malay Peninsula, It 
seems to me difficult to identify Captain Lamprey’s beast with either Bos 
sondaicus, Miller and Schlegel, or Bos Sondaicus birmanicus, Liydekker, 
A. L. BUTLER, 
Curator, Selangor State Museum, 
No, XXIT—OCCURRENCE OF UNCOMMON BIRDS 
2 IN RAJPUTANA., 
The occurrence in this district of the birds mentioned below is, I think, 
worthy of note, 
Vultur monachus,—The Cinereous Vulture, For the first time during my 
stay in India I set eyes on this magnificent bird, when I came on one last 
year as it was feeding on the carcase of a dead bullock, It was in company 
with a number of other vultures, but the way in which it dwarfed all others 
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