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lower. He has the same short, thick neck, with 

 practically no dewlap ; the head, however, is en- 

 tirely different. There is no concavity below the 

 horns and no arch to the nose, the skull being 

 quite straight from the horns downwards to the 

 nasal bone. There is a great mass of yellowish 

 flesh between the horns which is quite hairless, and 

 almost as hard as the skull itself. The cows are 

 much less heavily built, and are very like large 

 English cattle, except that their heads are more 

 deer-like in appearance. The delicate, well-bred 

 appearance of the head is strikingly noticeable 

 when a herd of startled tsaing stands at gaze. 

 The head, indeed, of a cow tsaing is very like 

 that of an Alderney, and the animal has the 

 same large, liquid-brown eye which enables it 

 to keep an uncommonly sharp look-out. 



In colour the cows and young bulls are a 

 bright chestnut, with white face, white stockings 

 and a white patch on the buttocks. This white 

 marking is common to both sexes. The bull 

 varies considerably in colour, according to age and 

 locality. In Java, I believe, old bulls are almost 

 invariably black. Black bulls are very rare in 

 Burma ; but I once saw three old bulls in a herd 

 which were so black that at first I took them for 

 bison. On another occasion I came across an 

 old bull almost entirely chocolate in colour. But, 

 ordinarily, in Burma the older the bull the lighter 

 he is. Young bulls of five or six years of age 



