22 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 593, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 489, 



1891 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 127, 1891 ; 



Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. Paris, vol. xxxviii, p. 13, 1891 ; Hose, 



Mammals of Borneo, p. 64, 1893 ; Evans, Journ. Bombay Nat. 



Hist. Soc. vol. X, p. 78, 1895; Ward, Records of Big Game, 



p. 278, 1896 ; Lydelilcer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 277, The Ox 



and Its Kindred, p. 202, 1912 ; Polloh, Zoologist, ser. 4, vol. ii, 



p. 1, 1898 ; Pococli, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 934. 

 Bos banting, SundevaU, E. Svenslta Vet.-Ah. Handl. 1844, p. 152, 



1846. 

 Bibos banting, Gray, Enowsley Menagerie, p. 48, 1850, Cat. TJngulata 



Brit. Mus. p. 35, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 13, 1872 ; 



Horsfield, Cat. E. India Mus. p. 183, 1851 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 229, 1862; Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. 



vol. XX, p. 125, pi. ii, 1898. 

 Gavaeus sondaicus, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxix, p. 296, 



1860; MacMaster, Notes on Jerdon, p. 131, 1870; Sterndale, 



Mamm.. of India, p. 488, 1884. 

 Bibos sondaicus, Biitimeyer, Denhschr. scliiueiz. Ges. vol. xxii, pt. 2, 



art. 3, p. 170, 1867, Ahh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. v, p. 189, 1878 ; 



Sclater, List. Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 134, 1883. 

 Bubalus seleniceros, vide Heller, Abh. Mus. Dresden, 1890, p. 30 ; 



based on a, probably tame, specimen from Timor. 

 Bos (Bibos) sondaicus, LydelcTcer, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 36, 



pi. iii, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 67, 1907; Ward, 



Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 447, 1910. 



Bantin, or Banting. 



Typical locality Java. 



Size smaller and build lighter than in the gaur, with the 

 dorsal ridge less developed, and not forming a distinct hump 

 the dewlap usually small, and the limbs relatively longer. 

 Head more elongated and antelope-like, with the relatively 

 small and slender horns, flattened at the base in adults, from 

 which they curve upwards and outwards, but somewhat 

 backwards and inwards towards the tips ; cylindrical through- 

 out in young. Bases of horns in old bulls connected by a 

 rugose shield occupying the straight intercornual ridge. 

 Tail well tufted and reaching somewhat below the hocks. 

 General colour of females and young males reddish or tawny 

 brown, approaching chestnut, lighter on under-parts, which 

 may be white or whitish, as ai-e the limbs, inner sides of 

 ears and lips; legs in adults white or whitish from above 

 knees and hocks to hoofs ; a large white patch on the hind- 

 quarters, which in the typical race extends to but does not 

 include root of tail; colour of upper-parts in adult bulls 

 ranging from black, with the aforesaid white rump-patch, to 



