horny plate between the horns fully developed, in the British Museum ;
the rest of the description being taken from the memoir by Vet.-Capt.
Evans quoted on p. 36. The British Museum possesses a younger bull,
in which the horny plate on the crown of the head has only just commenced
to be apparent on the lint of the back of the basesijf the horns.
Fig. 6.—Head of male Burmese Banting. From the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 898.
Col. Pollok1 writes that bulls of this race are deep red, with a white
rump-patch, although very old ones may be coffee-coloured.
Distribution.—Burma, Pegu, and Arakan ; possibly extending southwards
to the Malay Peninsula, and perhaps northwards to the ranges eastward o f
Chittagong.
i? a to E -T h e Burmese tsaing, according to Vet.-Capt. Evans, is to be
met in most parts of the country where suitable grazing and covert occur.
They generally go about in small parties numbering from eight to a dozen
Zoologist, ser. 4, vol. ii. p. 2 (1898).
head, although in some instances as many as twenty, or even more, may be
seen in company. Each herd is led by an old bull, but the band may
include two or three younger animals of the same sex. When the
bulls advance in age, they are frequently expelled from the herd by their
younger and more powerful rivals, and are then compelled to live in
solitude. As a rule, they avoid the neighbourhood of villages and exposed
cultivated land, although in secluded jungle clearings they may inflict considerable
damage on crops. Their food includes grass, leaves, and fallen
fruit, young bamboo-shoots being a very favourite nutriment. Although
in cloudy weather they continue till a later hour, their usual feeding-time
is from early morning till nine or ten o’clock, after which they retire to
the shade for repose. Pasturage and other kinds of food appear to be the
inducements for considerable local migrations on the part of these animals,
the young shoots of the bamboo attracting them to the jungle during the
early part of the rainy season. But at this time they are also often driven
into the open by, the persecution of flies and mosquitoes. During the hot
season they seek the deep shade of the dense jungle, but at other seasons of
the year prefer thinner and more open covert. Occasionally they visit the
lower hills, but never seem to ascend to any great elevation, being thus
very unlike the gaur. Except when wounded, tsaing seem indisposed to
charge the hunter ; the herds dashing off at a rapid pace when first disturbed,
but soon settling down again. Solitary bulls do not appear more
vicious in disposition than those with the herds.
c. M a n ip u r R a c e—Bos sondaicus, v a r .
Characters.—Smaller than the preceding race, the height o f the adult
male being 5 feet at the shoulder, and distinguished by the red colour of
this sex at all ages and the absence of a white patch on the buttocks, which
iSj however, developed in the female. Male with the ears relatively