THE MALAYSIAN UNGULATES. 
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Closely allied to these Oxen, although superficially very dif- 
ferent, is the Anoa, only known from Celebes, which stands about 
3 ft. high at the shoulder. Its horns are set rather close together 
and rise to nearly a foot in length. 
17. THE GAUR . [Plate XX] 
Bos gaurus. 
Malay: Seladang. 
The Gaur is confined to India, Burma, French Indo- 
Clitna (S. Anxuun) and the Malay Peninsula. Three geo- 
graphical races are recognized, of which the Indian is perhaps 
the largest. 
The Gaur is a heavily-built animal, remarkable for the 
high frontal ridge arched forwards to form a hollow in the 
forehead ; also a high ridge on the fore part of the back. It 
differs structurally from the Bison, which is a North American 
animal, in having 13 ribs instead of IX, 
The general colour of the Malayan race is brown, varying 
from reddish-brown in young bulls and cows to black-brown 
in old bulls. The lower parts of the legs are whitish. It 
stands from 5 ft, to 6 ft at the shoulder. 
At one time well-distributed throughout the Malay Penin- 
sula, it is now much restricted in range. It is still compara- 
tively plentiful in parts of Pahang, less so in Perak, Negri 
Sembilan and Johore, and apparently non-existent now in 
tSelangor and the Straits Settlements. It keeps to more or 
less open grass country or bamboo thickets in preference to 
primeval jungle. 
One of the largest pair of horns (from ulu Pahang) in 
the Parties Museum measures 28f in. in length along the out- 
side curve, and inches in circumference at the base. The 
biggest mentioned by Hubback has a circumference of 20^ in., 
tip to tip expanse of 33 in, and widest inside span of 40 in. 
This was a Seladaug from Negri Sembilan and the horns are 
now in the Kuala Lumpur Museum. 
Howland Ward gives measurements of four Malayan 
heads, varying in length from 22 J to 253 in., circumference 
15 to 17£ in., tip to tip 14^ to 20# in. and greatest width in- 
side measurement 22| to 2(if in. 
One of the largest Indian heads recorded by him mea- 
sures 3GJ in. long, in, circumference, 33f in. from tip 
to tip and 40| in. greatest width inside measurement 
