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Title: Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Rowland
Subjects: Game Game and game-birds Hunting trophies
Publisher: London (England) : Rowland Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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so different in the formof the head and horns from the adult Indian buffalo, the anoa is inthese respects much more like the young of the latter ; and the twoare connected to a considerable extent by the tamarau, or Philippinebuffalo (Bos mindorensis) of the island of Mindoro. As in all theOriental buffaloes, the hair of the fore-part of the back is directedforwards in the anoa. Height at shoulder about 3 feet 3 inches.There may be two races. Distribution.—The island of Celebes. Lengthon frontcurve. Circum-ference. ^rfp!° O^- -i5i 1\ 72 Paris Museum. -i3i 9i 5 Jesuit College, Manila, I2; 6 6§ British Museum. ■ Owners measurements. 1 Measured by the late Rear-Admiral R. A. J. Montgomerie. 43: RECORDS OF BIG GAME Leng> Circum- Tip to Owner, on front ferencc. Tip. curve. I2; 6 5i G.A.Wright. lOlO -9l-9^ gi 7 Carl Hagenbeck. g 5^ Sir Edmund (1. Loder, Kait. ri c5 Sir Victor Brookes Colleclioa. ,5 7^ Dr. Albert von Stephani. gj^ 8i Dublin Museum. - Owners me.isurenienls. BISON 433
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Dead European Bison. From Prince Demidoflfs Hunting Trips in the Caucasus. The BISON (Bos (Bison) bonasus). The great elevation of the fore-quarters, the mass of long hairclothing the head, shoulders, and fore part of the body, together withthe peculiar form of the head and horns, the latter of which arecylindrical, serve at once to distinguish bison from the other membersof the ox tribe. There is also a difference in the number of ribsbetween the bison and the more typical oxen, the number in theformer varying from 14 to 15 pairs. In the European species themass of hair on the fore-quarters is not so long as in its Americancousin, the form of the skull is different, and the hind-quarters do notfall away nearly to the same extent. Some difference may be notedbetween Caucasian and Lithuanian specimens, which are now referredto separate races. Height at shoulder, 6 feet i or 2 inches. In abull killed by Mr. St, George Littledale, the length from the noseto the root of the tail measured

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