EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 63 
Farm, Athi Plains, 4, skins and skulls (T. Roosevelt); Mount Kenia 
at 10,000 feet, 1 skull (Mearns); Neuman’s Boma, Northern Guaso 
Nyiro River, 4, skins and skulls (K. Roosevelt, T. Roosevelt); Quoy 
Water, Marsibit Road, 1 skull and head skin (Rainey); Taveta, 4 
skulls with head skins (Abbott). 
GERMAN East Arrica: Wembere Plains, 1 skin and complete skele-_ 
ton (Hagenbeck). 
Three of the adult buffaloes from Kamiti Farm, agile Plains, are 
mounted in the buffalo group among the Roosevelt specimens 
Included in the group is also the small calf from “British East 
Africa,” which was purchased through James L. Clark to complete 
the series. The Wembere Plains specimen was received at the 
National Zoological Park from Carl Hagenbeck December 24, 1910 
when about 24 years old. It then weighed 700 pounds. This 
buffalo lived in the park until April 7, 1914. There are, unfortu- 
nately, no specimens of Syncerus caffer radcliffe. from the type 
locality available for comparison, but the specimens in the collection 
enumerated above all agree well with the descriptions of that animal 
and authors are quite generally agreed that only one form of the 
buffalo can be admitted for this general region. Many of the names 
proposed by Matschie are based on individual differences in the form 
of the horns and can not seriously be considered until sufficient 
series of specimens from the various localities are available so 
that the real characters, if such exist, can be worked out. It would 
seem reasonable, on geographic grounds and from what we know of 
the forms of other ungulates, to believe that some of these names 
eventually will be applied to valid subspecies. I can not distinguish 
more than one form in the material listed above. 
SYNCERUS CAFFER A2QUINOCTIALIS (Blyth). 
1866. B[ubalus] caffer, var. equinoctialis Buytu, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 372. 
({White Nile,] ‘‘ Equatorial Africa.’’) 
1866. Bubalus xquinoctiahs Buytxu, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 372. 
1873. [Bubalus pumilus] b. Stirps orientalis Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 
p. 483. (Abyssinia and Upper Nubia.) 
1906. Bubalus azrakensis Matrscure, Sitz.-ber Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, p. 169. 
July. (Roseires, Blue Nile, Sudan; type in Berlin Museum.) 
1910. Bos xquinoctialis Roosrverr, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 475; 
London ed., p. 486. 
1911. Syncerus caffer aequinoctialis HoLustER, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 24, 
p.-192. June 23. 
1911. Bubalus solvayi Marscuiz, Deutsche Jager-Zeitung, vol. 57, No. 7, p. 104. 
(Mongalla, Sudan; mounted head in collection of R. von Goldschmidt- 
Rothschild.) 
1913. Bubalus pumilus orientalis LyDEKKER, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
vol. 1, p. 58. (In synonymy.) 
1914. Syncerus caffer xquinoctialis RoosEVELT AND HeEtteEr, Life-Hist. African 
Game Anim., vol. 1, p. 418. 
