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neck and back is the same as in the Indian buffalo. 
The relation of the anoa to the arna is, in fact, very 
similar to that presented by the pigmy hippopotamus 
of western Africa to its gigantic relative the ordinary 
hippopotamus ; and if the various species of wild 
cattle are divided into subgeneric, or generic, groups 
it scarcely seems necessary to separate the anoa 
from Bubalus, as typified by the Indian buffalo, 
although it has been made the type of a genus by 
itself under the name of Anoa depressicorniSy or 
A. celebensis. 
On the other hand, while some anoas are wholly 
black, others, as shown in the accompanying illustra- 
tion, have a pair of white spots on each side of the 
face, a white band on the chest, and white markings 
on the legs, more especially the front pair. Such 
markings, with the exception of the chest-band, 
which may occur, as already mentioned, in the 
tamarao and the Bornean race of the Indian buffalo, 
are quite unknown in any other wild cattle ; and it 
is very noteworthy that the two spots on the sides of 
the face are almost identical in position with those 
found in the bushbucks {Tragelaphus) among antelopes. 
Whether, however, such slender evidence can be 
regarded as indicative of a near genetive relation 
between buffaloes — which, be it noted, are the most 
primitive and generalised of all cattle — and the 
antelopes of the bushbuck group must, for the 
present at any rate, remain an open question. 
Full-grown anoas have quite short and sparse 
coats, as shown in the left-hand figure of the first of 
the two photographs here reproduced ; and in old 
age even this scanty covering may, as in the larger 
buffaloes, more or less completely disappear. Young 
