58 NILS GYEPENSTOLPE, THE SWED1SH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 



tive himters sent out by Mr. Eisenhofer on that purpose. Mr. Eisenhofer has then 

 kindly presented the cow to the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm, though 

 it has not yet arrived to its destination on account of the war. 



In the dense jungles at Hat Sanuk and Hue Sai I several times went out hunting 

 the »Ngoa kating» b ut I was always unfortunate in ray efforts to get one of these fine 

 beasts. On one of my trips to Hat Sanuk I was accompanied by Mr. C. Kramer and 

 one night, v/hen he was sitting över a saltlick, a fine bull came down to drink. He fired 

 two shot with a 12-bore, but did not get the animal on the spöt. Our native hunters 

 were sent out to follow the wounded animal and af ter about a weeks tracking they found 

 the big bull dead, but it was then of course already putrified and only the skull could be 

 saved. The aecompanying photograph illustrates the horns of this fine beast. 



The following dimensions of the horns have been kindly communicated by Mr. 

 Kramer. 



From tip to tip in a straight line — 940 mm. 



» » » » along the inner curve = 1270 » 

 » » » » » » outer » = 1420 » 



The race inhabiting the Burmese countries and Tenasserim eastwards to the French 

 Indo China has been separated under the above-mentioned name. South wards in the 

 Malay Peninsula another race occurs to which the name of Bos gaurus hubbacki Lydek- 

 ker has been given. These two races are only slightly differentiated from each other 

 and the exact distribution is still uncertain. 



Bos banteng. Raffl. (subsp?) 



Tlie Banteng does not occur in the Malay Peninsula, nor was it found among the 

 mountain forests on the boundary between Siarn and Tenasserim on about Lat. N. 12°. 



In Northern Siarn it occurs here and there, and I sometimes observed its tracks 

 during my excursions. Most common it seems to be along the western börder. During 

 my stay at Doi Par Sakeng the late Mr. T. B. Chatteris came across a herd of bantengs 

 in a narrow valley near the frontier to Karennee. He fired a shot at a very big cow which 

 got severely wounded. The wounded animal at once separated from the herd and Mr. 

 Chatteris followed its tracks for some hours when unfortunately a heavy rain broke 

 out which made further tracking impossible. 



In Siarn two indifferent races probably occur. The most common is certainly Bos 

 banteng birmmiicus Lydekker (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898 p. 276 — 278). In this race the 

 general colour is dark chestnut red, with a large white rump-patch. The head is dirty 

 grey with a light chestnut patch on the nose above the muzzle. The other race has been 

 named Bos banteng porteri by Lydekker. This race is very dark coloured and spotted 

 closety with small, pure white spöts especially on the neck. In this race the horns 

 seem to dröp lower on each side of the head. The bases of the horns seems to be niore 

 heavily ridged. This may indicate an old individual, but until more material has been 

 available I think its wisest to keep the two »races » separate, though in this paper I have 

 refrained from giving the specimens observed a subspecific name. 





