. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . he body covered thickly with somewhat woollyhair, which becomes gradually more and more sparse with advancing age,until in old individuals it is almost completely bare ; hair of middle line ofback reversed from the occiput to the haunches, as in the Indian buffaloand tamarau. In young animals the general colour of the hair yellowish-brown ; in adults the colour varving from dark brown to blackish, oftenwith white spots in front of the lateral hoofs, on the throat, the hinder part Anoa of the neck, the back, in front of the eyes, and
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . he body covered thickly with somewhat woollyhair, which becomes gradually more and more sparse with advancing age,until in old individuals it is almost completely bare ; hair of middle line ofback reversed from the occiput to the haunches, as in the Indian buffaloand tamarau. In young animals the general colour of the hair yellowish-brown ; in adults the colour varving from dark brown to blackish, oftenwith white spots in front of the lateral hoofs, on the throat, the hinder part Anoa of the neck, the back, in front of the eyes, and on the sides of the lowerjaw, while the inner sides of the cannon-bones may also be white, as arethe inner surfaces of the ears ; under-parts generally light brown. Old bullsfrom which the hair has almost disappeared have the skin as black as inthe Indian buftalo. In the lower jaw there are frequently only two lowerpremolar teeth, although there may be three of these teeth, as in almostall other Bovuiie. Although the occipital surface has not the prominent. Fig. 26.—Head of Bull Aiioa, from a living specimen. (Rowland Ward, Reiords of Bis; Game.) crest found in adults ot the larger buffaloes, when compared with that of ayoung Indian buffalo the skull is almost identical, the resemblance beingcarried even to the continuation of the vomer as far back as the hindermargin of the palate. As in the tamarau and other buffiloes, the numberof pairs of ribs is usually thirteen, although one instance of the presence offourteen pairs has been recorded by Dr. Heller. The difference between an anoa skull and that of an adult Indianbuffalo is probably in part due to the inferiority in the size of the presentspecies, since it is an established fact that the smaller representatives of agroup tend to retain the generalised features of the ancestral type which 134 Oxen become lost in the adults of the larger kinds. It has been uro;ed that theanoa exhibits many traits of affinity with the antel
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