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with the face, exceedingly robust, a little depressed, subtri- 

 angular, short, straight, wrinkled, and suddenly terminat- 

 ing in a very sharp point ; the face straight, no lachrymary 

 or suborbital opening 1 



The Anoa. (A. Depressicornis.) The specimens from 

 which the following descriptions were taken, are one in the 

 British Museum, and the other presented to us by Dr. 

 Abel, is at present deposited in the superb collection of 

 Mr. Brooks. The first consists of the bones of the face, 

 with the hair and horns on, measuring about nine inches 

 from the nose to the base of the horns ; the muzzle is very 

 broad and naked ; the forehead and chaffron straight, ra- 

 ther narrow, covered with bluish cinereous hair, short, 

 close, and feathering beneath the left eye ; the sides of the 

 maxillse are cut away, leaving it doubtful whether there was 

 no sack on the jaw, though no lachrymary sinus, for the flat 

 surface of the lachrymary bone is partly preserved ; the 

 horns are ten inches long, straight, very robust, a little de- 

 pressed at base, and fiat on their anterior side, subtrian- 

 gular to about two-thirds of their length, then tapering 

 suddenly to a sharp point ; from the base to more than half 

 their length they are nearly of equal thickness, rudely and 

 irregularly wrinkled, and of a dark gray colour. A memo- 

 randum within the head states that it was brought from the 

 Island of Celebes. 



Our learned friend Dr. Abel, who, probably, was the 

 donor of the above, presented us with what he termed ano- 

 ther of the same description, and we thence infer from the 

 same place, no doubt procured by him on his return from 

 China in the suit of Lord Amherst. This head is somewhat 

 less ; the horns are shorter, rounder at the back, less wrin- 

 kled, and the contraction to form the point begins near the 

 middle of their length ; the hair of the face is almost 

 black. This fragment may be of the young animal, or the 

 female ; but the horns of the other specimen are sufficiently 



