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THh: MALAYSIAN UNGULATES. 
The record. according to Dr. Hanitsch, is that of a 
Burmese head, whose horns measure 39# inches in length and 
2G# in. in circumference at the base. 
The Gaur, or Setadang as it is known here, is the prin- 
cipal big-game animal of the Malay Peninsula. Mr. T, R. 
Hubback’s book on “Elephant and Seladang Hunting in the 
Federated Malay States” has already been recommended to 
those interested in this sport. The Malayan race of the Gaur 
has been named after him: Bos gaums hubbadci, a parti- 
cularly suitable compliment in view of the amount he has done 
both in hunting the animal itself and iu writing about this 
form of sport in Malaya. 1 
18 . THE BANTENG. 
Bos bant eng . 
Malay: Banteng or Tembadau, 
The Banteng is found wild in Java, Borneo, Malay Penin- 
sula (north only), Burma, Siam and French Indo-Chma, It 
(or perhaps a hybrid) is kept in a domesticated state in Bali. 
The record of its occurrence further south in the Malay Penin- 
sula rests on one skull (believed to lie that of a cow) obtained 
in Perak. Lydekker points out however that “ the possibility 
of its lieing nothing more than a feral race of the domesticated 
Bali bantin, which is largely imported into Singapore, should 
be borne in mind/’ 
Tlie Banteng is coloured much the same as the Seladang 
except for the whitish legs and white patch on the rump, which 
however was absent in the one specimen described from Perak. 
In size the Banteng is sum Her and more lightly built than the 
Seladang; it stands a little over 5 ft. at the shoulder: the 
dorsal ridge is less marked ; the horns are smaller and more 
slender, and in old bulls connected at the base by a horny 
shield. Tire forehead is Hat or slightly convex. 
Rowland Ward gives the measurements of ten Bornean 
heads varying in lengths from I t# to 21§ in., in circumference 
from 10 # to 12} in., tip to tip expanse from 1# to IS £ in. and 
greatest width inside measurement from 11 # to 22# in. The 
measurements of a single Javan head in the British Museum 
are given as, length 24# in., circumference 12# in., tip to tip 
15# in., greatest width inside measurement 24# in. 
i I am indebted to him for permission to use his photographs for the 
reproduction of Plates II, Til and IV iu this Guide. 
