Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . r less flattened,tail reaching only a little below the hock, and a dis-tinct ridge running from shoulders to the middleof the back, where it ends in a sharp drop. Inmature males, the color of the short, fine hair isdark brown or blackish, but the young of bothsexes, and the female banting of all ages, are red-dish brown. The gaur is distinguished by the higharched frontal bone between the borns, which inthe gayal is straight and flat; the banting is thesmallest, its horns more rounded and the ridge onits back
Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . r less flattened,tail reaching only a little below the hock, and a dis-tinct ridge running from shoulders to the middleof the back, where it ends in a sharp drop. Inmature males, the color of the short, fine hair isdark brown or blackish, but the young of bothsexes, and the female banting of all ages, are red-dish brown. The gaur is distinguished by the higharched frontal bone between the borns, which inthe gayal is straight and flat; the banting is thesmallest, its horns more rounded and the ridge onits back less developed. Of the three, of all Orien-tal wild cattle in fact, the gaur is the largest andby far the most formidable; is in fact one of themost formidable beasts of the earth which the hun-ter can stalk, and one that will on occasion supplyall the excitement the most intrepid sportsmanmight desire. They stand higher than any otherof the oxen family, and are of heavier bone, thoughthe shoulder blade is small for an animal of suchsize—another disadvantage for the hunter. The. THE LARGE AND FORMIDABLE ORIENTAL WILD CATTLE FAMILY. i. The Seladai - - ?<*? 2. The Anoa of Celebes, Bos depresskoniis necting link between the ox and the antelope,i it, 3 ft. 3 in. 3. The \ %runniens. Tibet and Kashmir. =, ft 6 in. high. 4. Banting, Bos soudakus. Sumatra. Java. Borneo, Burma. 5 ft. to 5 ft. o. in. 5. Indian Buffalo, Bos bubalus. 5 ft. to 6 ft. at ..der. 6. Small Buffalo peculiar to the island of Mindoro of the PhilippicHeight at sh-. African (Cape* ! fl ft. at Gayal, A :n- Smaller model of Chillingham Bull, half wild cattle10 Gaur. Bcs gnurus, or Indian Bison, known inMalay as the Seladang. MiscalledOriental wild cattle. ?pean Wild Cattle. Extinct The - ffalo, Bos pumi IN THE EYE OF DAY 197 blade goes well up into the shoulder, its top beingwithin about four inches of the highest point ofthe back ridge. Therefore a shot should be senthome just
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