1860.] On the Flat-liomed Taurine Cattle of S. E. Asia. 303 



not more remarkable than that of hornless Buffaloes and other domes- 

 tic cattle ; unless in the instance of a race little altered from the 

 wild type. Thus the Italian race of Buffaloes, in which hornless 

 individuáis sometimes occur, (vicie figure of the skull of one in Cuvi- 

 er's Ossemens Fossiles,) is considerably more removed from the 

 aboriginally wild type of the species, than are the domestic Buffaloes 

 of India, among which I am not aware that hornless individuáis ever 

 occur. But I have read of hornless Yaks ; and instances have been 

 known of hornless individuáis of different species occurring even in 

 the wild state : a tame Springbok of this description was long in 

 the possession of the Empress Josephine. By specially breeding from 

 such animáis, a race of them could be readily established. 



In Sumatra, as in Java, the ordinary domestic Taurine cattle are 

 humped, small and of inferior quality : but, according to Sir T. 

 Stamford Baffles, — " There is a very fine breed of cattle peculiar to 

 Sumatra, of which," he remarks, " I saw abundance at Menang Kabu, 

 when I visited the capital of that country in 1818. They are short, 

 compact, well made animáis, without a hump, and almost without ex- 

 ception of a light fawn colour, relieved with white. The eyes are 

 large and fringed with long white lashes. The legs are delicate and well 

 shaped. Among all that I saw I did not observe any that were not 

 in excellent condition, in which respect they formed a striking con- 

 trast to the cattle generally met with in India [i. e. S. E. Asia and 

 its archipelago. India proper is styled " Western India" by Craw- 

 furd]. They are universally used in agriculture, and are perfectly 

 domesticated. This breed appears to be quite distinct from the 

 Banteng of Java and the more eastern islands."* What, then, is it ? 

 The remark that these beasts are " perfectly domesticated" would 

 hardly have been made of any race appertaining to the humped or 

 to the ordinary humpless type, but seems to imply that the writer 

 regarded it as a peculiar species, as does also his statement of its 

 distinctness from the Banteng. 



In the ' Journal of the Indian Archipelago,' II, 831, is a notice of 



the existence of wild cattle in Célebes ; but I suspect that the small 



Anoa Buffalo (Bubaltts depressicoenis) is intended. In an account 



of the province of Minahassa, it is there stated that — " wild Cows 



* Un. Trans. XIII, 267. 



