1 28 Oxen
Characters. — Apparently distinguishable from the Narbada buffalo
merely by its somewhat inferior dimensions.
Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe during the Plistocene
period. This form is typified by an imperfect skull from Dantzig, where
a second and smaller skull was subsequently discovered. Additional
remains have been recorded by Professor Riitimeyer from the pre-glacial
deposits near Rome and other districts in Italy;
5. T he T a m a r a u , or M indoro B u f f a l o—Bos mindorens is
Bubalus mindorensis, Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, vol. ii. pp. 4
and 50 (1888), ibid. p. 204, pi. xix. (1894) ; Heller, Abh. Mus. Dresden,
1890 -9 1, No.' 2, pp. 3 and 3 1 (1890) ; Nehring, Zool. Anzeiger, 1890,"
p. 448 ; Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xvi. p. 199 (1894); Meyer, Abh.
Mus. Dresden, 1896-97, No. 6, p. 12, pis. vii. and viii. (1896) ; Thomas,
Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. xiy. p. 4 10 (1898).
Anoa mindorensis, Steere, Proc. ZoohSoc. 1888, p. 4 13 ; Oustalet, Bull.
Mus. Paris, 1895, p. 202.
Probubalus mindorensis, Steere, loc. cit. (1888).
Bos mindorensis:, Lydekker, Royal Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 206 (1894), Geogr.
Hist. Mamm. p. 47 (1896).
Plate X . Fig. 1.
Characters^/A small, rather stoutly built species, in many respects;
intermediate between small fo rm s » the Indian buffalo (such as the one
from Borneo mentioned on p. 1 26) and the anoa; the height at the
shoulder being somewhere about 3 feet 6 inches.1 Horns short but stout,
marked with very deep irregular transverse grooves and pits for the greater
part o f their length ; their direction mainly upwards, with the tips some-
1 The measurement taken from the British Museum example, which is said to have been made too
low and too thick in the mounting. TAMARAU (1) and ANOA (z).