598 UNGULATA. 



removed to the buffaloes, with which indeed it is closely related. Mod- 

 ern classifiers raise it to the rank of a genus. It is the dwarf of the race, 

 measuring only fifty inches in height at the shoulders, with a length of 

 five feet and a half. The head is broad at the brow, but pointed at the 

 muzzle, the eyes are large, and dark brown ; the horns are set wide 

 apart, and form nearly a straight line with the face. There is no lachry- 

 mal sinus. The hair is of moderate length and thickness, and is usually 

 of a dark-brown color. 



Nothing is known of the wild life of the Anoa. It seems to be con- 

 fined to the island of Celebes, where it is an inhabitant of the mountains. 

 It has been often captured and brought to Europe. It gives the impres- 

 sion of a small cow, is lazy and indisposed to move, standing for hours 

 on the same spot, either eating, or chewing the cud. Like the buffaloes, 

 it is remarkable for its silence ; it very rarely utters a short low, more 

 like a groan. It resembles the buffaloes also in its predilection for water 

 and moist places, and its love for water-plants as food. Though so small, 

 it is very fierce. Some of them which were kept in confinement, killed 

 in one night fourteen stags placed in the same inclosure. Brehm has 

 proposed for the animal the name of Chamois-Buffalo ; the word Anoa 

 means in the Malay language " forest-cow." 



