relatively longer, the head much more elongate and antelope-like, the ridge
on the withers less developed, and not forming a distinct hump, the dewlap
smaller, the forehead flat, and in old males bearing a rugose horny shield
between the bases of the horns. The tail well tufted, and reaching below
the hocks. Horns comparatively small and slender, in adults flattened at
the base, from which they at first curve outwards and upwards, but towards
the tip somewhat backwards and inwards ; in young animals cylindrical
throughout. General colour of young males and females at all ages red-
brown, approaching chestnut, and becoming much lighter on the under
parts, which may be white, or whitish, as are the inner sides of the legs,
the inner surfaces of the ears, and the lips ; legs of adults from above the
knees and hocks to the hoofs white or whitish ; females, and generally
the males, with a large white patch on the buttocks, surrounding, but not
including, the base of the tail ; adult males with the upper-parts varying
from blackish-brown, with the aforesaid white rump-patch, to a uniform
dark reddish-brown. Young with the ~ Outer side of the leg chestnut
throughout its length, and a dark streak down the middle of the back.
There are few members of the present group of animals about which
our information is more incomplete than it is in the present case ; and our
museums are sadly deficient in specimen. In addition to a skeleton and
numerous skulls, the species is represented in the National Collection by
a mounted bull from Java, from which much of the hair has been rubbed
off by handling, a mounted head from Burma, and an immature mounted
bull, also Burmese. In spite of this deficiency of information, at least two
very distinct races are recognisable.
The banting (the tsaing of the Burmese, and the sapi-utan of the
Malays) will breed freely with domestic cattle, and is itself kept in a
more or less domesticated condition by various native tribes of the Malay
countries. It was to a half-bred race that the name Bos leucoprymnus was
applied by Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard, and it is for this reason that the