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b. A distinct dewlap, withers ending gradually; skull 

 straight between horns, forehead flat or slightly 

 convex B. SONDAICUS BUTLERI 



B. Horns trigonal in section ••• B. BUBALUS- 



49. BOS GAURUS HUBBACKi, Lydekker. The Malayan Gaur 

 or Sladang. Bos gaur us. Blanford p. 484 ; P. Z. S. 

 1890, p. 592. 



Malay name " Sladang.'' 



General colour brown, almost black in old bulls, rufous in 

 young bulls and cows ; paler below. Legs below knees 

 and hocks white. Forehead above eyes often grey or whitish. 

 Height at shoulder 5| to 6 feet. Horns decidedly curved, 

 tips distinctly twisted inwards with close approach to each 

 other: colour greenish, tipped black. Frontal area between 

 the horns strongly ridged and inclined forward. 



The Peninsula. 



50.* BOS SONDAICUS BUTLERI, Lydekker. The Malayan 

 Banteng, Lydekker, Field, Vol.CV,p. 151; Jour. F. M.S. 

 Museums Vol. I, p. 61. Bos sondaicus, M. & S., Davison, 

 P. Z. S., 1889 p. 447. Bos sondaicus.' Butler, J. 

 Bombay N. H. S. Vol. XIII, p. 192 and plate. 

 Malay name " Sapi," " Banteng " or " Tembadau." 



General colour blackish in old bulls, rufous in other 

 animals, stockings from below knees and hocks reddish 

 or blackish. No white rump patch. Horns in cows extreme- 

 ly small. 



The Peninsula. 



The validity of this race or sub-species is at present 

 extremely doubtful. The only actual material on which 

 it is founded is a skull obtained by Captain J. C. 

 Lamprey in Perak and imagined to be that of a cow. The 

 horns are about 6 inches in length. The animal was only 



Jour. Straits Branch 



