. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 304 Animal Life of the domesticated Javan breed, and by two heads of the Burmese race. The latter (locally known as " Tsaine") differs from the typical Javan animal by the tawny colour of the fully adult bulls. The only mounted specimen of a Javan bull in good condition in this country is a head in the collection of Sir Edmund Loder, at Leonard's Lee, near Horsham. Mr. F. E. Blaauw, of Graveland, Holland, is, however, the fortunate owner of one or more living examples of this (in Europe) rare animal. Very little is
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 304 Animal Life of the domesticated Javan breed, and by two heads of the Burmese race. The latter (locally known as " Tsaine") differs from the typical Javan animal by the tawny colour of the fully adult bulls. The only mounted specimen of a Javan bull in good condition in this country is a head in the collection of Sir Edmund Loder, at Leonard's Lee, near Horsham. Mr. F. E. Blaauw, of Graveland, Holland, is, however, the fortunate owner of one or more living examples of this (in Europe) rare animal. Very little is known of the habits of the true banting in the wild state. The species is, however, kept in a domesti- cated condition both in Java and in the neighbouring island of Batchian, in both of which it apparently constitutes the common, if not the only, breed of the country. ,.•- •' &,. The Wallachian Sheep. Several of the con- tinental countries of South- East- ern Europe and South- Wester n Asia are the home of a very remark- able breed, or rather of several closely-allied breeds, of sheep characterised by the corkscrew-like form of the long and slender horns of the rams. As shown in our illustration, which is taken from a ram of the Wallachian breed, these sheep have black faces, ears, and legs, and long bushy tails. The fleece is also rather dark-coloured, and consists of long, shaggy wool mingled with hair. The most striking feature is, however, undoubtedly formed by the horns, which are present in both. sexes, although very much smaller in the ewes than in the rams. It is said these horns attain their finest development WALLACHIAN SHEEP in the Cretan breed. In the Wallachian breed, however, they are also of great length, and diverge at about an angle of 45 degrees from the middle line of the head. In the Hungarian breed the divergence is very much less, the two horns forming a narrow V- It will be seen that the horns form a regular closely-twisted corkscrew-like spiral
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