THE MALAYSIAN UNGULATES. 
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19. THE INDIAN BUFFALO or WATER BUFFALO . 
Bos btibalis. [Plate XJ 
Malay: Kerbau. 
This Buffalo is found in a wild state in various parts of 
Ceylon, India. Burma, Indo-China, Borneo and possibly the 
Malay Peninsula. In a domesticated state it is well-known in 
Malaysia. It is possible that- the wild herds found in Borneo 
are descended from escaped domesticated animals. They are 
rather smaller than the Indian race. 
It stands about 5 ft. high at the shoulder, ashy-black in 
colour, with very little hair. The horns are very distinctive,, 
being long, flattened, triangular in section. Long horns mea- 
sured along the curve reach up to fi ft. in length. One pair of 
horns in the Baffles Museum (probably from Siam) measure 
and 344 inches respectively and from tip to tip in a 
straight line 3S£ inches. 
In Africa another species of Buffalo occurs, divided into 
numerous geographical races. 
Suibfam. II. CAPRIXAE, 
20. THE SEROW or GOAT ANTELOPE. 
Va pri corn is $ tt m (tire n s is, 
Malay: Kambing gurun, Kambing goa. 
The Serow is allied both to Antelopes and Goats. It has 
a short tail, small horns, no heard. Different species arc found 
from Japan. China, Indo-China and India south to Malaysia, 
They inhabit hilly ground but occasionally are found near 
the coast. They are solitary animals, not rare in the Malay 
Peninsula, but difficult to obtain, on account of their habit of 
keeping to inaccessible limestone bills. Maxwell in his book 
u In Malay Forests ” tells of the trials and troubles awaiting 
the sportsman who would hunt the Serow in Perak. 
It stands about 3 ft, in height; the Malaysian races are 
blackr-h, tinged with grey or red in places, particularly the 
mane. 
Rowland Ward gives the measurements of one Sumatran 
head in the British Museum as length 9 iu., circumference 
5 in., tip to tip 2 in., and others un localized, but in the same 
collection and presumably from the same country or possibly 
from the Malay Peninsula, ranging from -fj-i-SJ iu. in length, 
3j-3§ in. in circumference ami to -U in. from tip to tip. 
It is not known from Java or Borneo, but according to 
native report exists in the latter country. It is rare in 
Sumatra, 
