Fauna : Mammals 



vicinity of Cape Mount and also from the Dukwia River. That 

 from the Dukwia River could hardly be called a red buffalo. 

 It was an old bull whose hide was almost hairless, such hairs 

 as remained being rather of a greyish brown. On the other 

 hand, the female specimen obtained by Buttikofer near Cape 

 Mount was of the usual reddish yellow characteristic of this 



283. HEAD OF WEST AFRICAN ];UHALO (-KNEGALESE TYPE)— 

 BUBALUS PLANICEROS 



type of buffalo on the Gold Coast and in the Congo Basin (the 

 range of this red form stretches eastwards to the end of the 

 Congo Forest and the westernmost frontiers of Uganda). 

 Buttikofer's specimen from the Dukwia River seems to have 

 been an abnormal individual, which owing to some injury in 

 its youth had its horns growing in a convergent way, so that 

 they were crossed at the tips. It may of course have been an 



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