EAST INDIAN CATTLE 
Much relating to bull and cow worship may be found in Gubernatis’s 
“ Zodlogical Mythology.” 2% 
The humped cattle are also used in China, Madagascar, and 
eastern-central Africa; and the ordinary Galla or “sunga”’ ox 
of Abyssinia is a big variety with enormous horns, which a 
German authority, Professor Riitimeyer, thought closely allied 
to the banteng. Fossil great-horned species of gigantic pro- 
portions occur in the recent deposits of both Europe and India. 
The forests of Celebes contain an extraordinary little wild 
cow (sapi-utan), the anoa, not much bigger than a goat, with 
a soft brown coat and straight triangular horns anoa and 
pointing backward. It is of no service except as Tamarac. 
food. A somewhat larger relative, or perhaps a hybrid between 
it and something else, is the tamarao of the Philippine Islands. 
This interesting little animal was first brought to scientific notice by an 
American collector, J. B. Steere, in Mindoro, who gave an illustrated 
account of the matter in The American Naturalist for 1891. A bull is about 
the size of a small Jersey cow, but lower and - pag KEL LN 
heavier, with a swollen appearance about both 
body and limbs. ‘It was lead-black in color, 
with lighter markings on head, legs, and under 
parts, with thin, short hair, a little switchlike 
tail, like a swine, and nearly straight, sharp, 
black horns, which ran upward and backward, 
spreading but little more than the width of thc 
head, and being in line at the tip with the nose 
and eye. This narrowness and backward set U- 
of the horns gave the animal a peculiar look, THE ANOA, 
but must be especially fitted for crowding its way through the wild vines and 
canebrakes.... The skin was of immense thickness, and was entirely cov- 
ered with gore marks of many battles.” The cows are about as large as the 
bulls, and calves are chestnut in color. ‘We found them,” says Steere, 
‘chiefly living in canebrakes, upon the young shoots of which they were 
feeding. At night they would gather in some numbers along the open 
beaches of the river. During the morning they would feed solitarily, or lie 
in the mud and water of the small streams, and later in the day would take 
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