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cows, for in this respect it appears to connect the typical banting with 
the extinet Bos etruscus of the Upper Tertiary deposits of the Val 
o in which t s are etruscus was lo ag 
regarded by the late Professor Rutimeyer as nearly re 08 
sondaicus and the relationship now в ade still closer. In 
fact, if my data are trustworthy, the Malay sapi utan would seem to be 
the primitive type of banting, EE t ѕ ш which the cows 
have long horns with B. etru , is quite in — 
À word in Pone uin. with regard to the second skull sent from 
Selangor by Mr. Robinson. As already mentioned, the horns are of a 
gaur-like type, and quite pA таа those of the banting ; so that I cannot 
cates a sub-adult animal. The skull, however, shows no trace of t 
strongly developed intercornual crest of typical gau 
Were it not for the fact that the young Malay gaur referred to 
above abi was pr ену younger than the animal to whieh the 
is represe 
hypothesis is untenable. To that there are two kinds of 
gaur is obviously unreasonable. Unless, then 
a ui ox 
Baker, and I am inclined to think rightly, regards as a domesticated 
derivation from the e gaur) I am unable to come to any definite con- 
clusion with regard to its real affinity. 
[Reprinted from the “ Field," February, 1905.] 
RHINOCEROS TRAPPING. 
qu and near = Dindings, the чарчы; and exporting of rhinoceros 
n, he past, quite a regular trade, It is said by the 
local Malays that some fifty of rie animals have been caught there 
altogether; and that fo mpi e they were very plentiful, but have now 
become scarce and difficult to trap. 
They are ret in а made in the jungle tracks which they 
follow. The pits rectangular holes 7 hasters long, 3 hasters wide 
izontal pi t stakes 
These horizontals are longer than the length and breadth of f the pit 
and their ends are buried in the earth. 
