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The most striking proof of such a junction is, that the great Mammalia of Java, the rhinoceros, the tiger, and the Banteng or wild ox, occur also in Siam and Burmah, and these would certainly not have been introduced by man. Now this exactly corresponds with the time we should require since the temperate forms of plants entered Java.
Muller, S., on the banteng; on the colours of Semnopithecus chrysomelas. Muntjac-deer, weapons of the.
"Balz" of the Black-cock. Bantam, Sebright. Banteng, horns of; sexual differences in the colours of the. Banyai, colour of the. Barbarism, primitive, of civilised nations. Barbs, filamentous, of the feathers, in certain birds. Barr, Mr., on sexual preference in dogs. Barrago, F., on the Simian resemblances of man.
Races, distinctive characters of; or species of man; crossed, fertility or sterility of; of man, variability of the; of man, resemblance of, in mental characters; formation of; of man, extinction of; effects of the crossing of; of man, formation of the; of man, children of the; beardless, aversion of, to hairs on the face. Raffles, Sir S., on the banteng. Rafts, use of.
These, the true oxen, as they are sometimes termed, now exist only in domesticated breeds of cattle. The three species gaur, gayal and banteng inhabit Indo-Malayan countries, and all of them are dark brown with white stockings. In old bulls of the African species the horns meet at their base and completely cover the forehead. In the arni of India they are enormously long.
S. Muller, on the Banteng, 'Zoog. Indischen Archipel. 1839-1844, tab. 35; see also Raffles, as quoted by Mr. Blyth, in 'Land and Water, 1867, p. 476. On goats, Dr. Gray, 'Catalogue of the British Museum, p. 146; Desmarest, 'Mammalogie, p. 482.
The term asu is that generally employed by the Javanese, from whose country possibly the dog may have been introduced into Borneo. In Brunai, dogs are called kuyok, a term said to be of Sumatran origin. On the North and East there are large herds of wild cattle said to belong to two species, Bos Banteng and Bos Gaurus or Bos Sondaicus.
The sides of the lanes and bridle roads were often edged with prickly Cacti and a leafless Euphorbia, but the country being so highly cultivated there was not much room for indigenous vegetation, except upon the sea-beach. We saw plenty of the fine race of domestic cattle descended from the Bos banteng of Java, driven by half naked boys, or tethered in pasture-grounds.
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