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earlier chapter, they may be imperfectly lyrate in 
shape. The tail of the bantin is relatively longer 
than in the gaur, reaching to below the hocks ; and, at 
all events generally, there is a small dewlap. Adult 
Javan bantin, at any rate, have a conspicuous white 
rump-patch, which surrounds, although it does not 
include, the root of the tail. 
As the tsaine is still imperfectly known in Europe, 
it may be useful to reproduce, with some omissions 
and verbal alterations, the description by an anony- 
mous writer in the Asian newspaper of an adult 
bull shot in June 1906 at Tammu, on the north- 
eastern frontier of Burma. 
There is a distinct dorsal ridge, which ends abruptly 
about the middle of the back, but no distinct hump. 
The general colour is light red, becoming lighter as 
the flanks and under surface of the body are ap- 
proached, where the colour is almost greyish, inter- 
mixed here and there with white. The inside of 
the thighs is yellowish grey, where the skin is almost 
devoid of hair, and secretes an unctuous brown 
substance. The inside of the fore-legs and the under 
part of the chest are of a greyish white, and the 
anterior portion of the fore-leg, from the"^' *'kriee 
upwards, reddish black, this tint being also slightly 
marked on the hind-legs. There is a vestige of a 
dewlap, about three inches in its greatest breadth. 
The hair is short and glossy in the redder parts, 
but coarse and thick in the grey parts. On the 
belly the skin is about half an inch thick, but nearly 
an inch on the neck, the surface of the body being 
pitted and scarred here and there from bites of 
insects and wounds. The upper part of the head 
in front and at the sides is tawny white ; but the 
