64 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Specimens.—Six, as follows: 
Lavo: Rhino Camp, 1 skin and skull (T. Roosevelt). 
“Upper Nite:” 5 skulls (Pomeroy, Davidson, Prentice). 
The Abyssinian buffaloes we encountered were in the Lado, on the western bank 
of the Nile. They were living in country much like that along the Northern Guaso 
Nyiro, and their habits were substantially those of their Northern Guaso Nyiro cousins. 
At one camp by a native village, we found a herd living in the dense reed beds, through 
which they had trampled a tangle. of trails. The herd entirely realized that they 
were safe in their reéd fastnesses, and only came into the open country at night to 
graze. Yet in the same neighborhood there were other buffaloes with entirely different 
habits. These lived among the dry, scattered thorn-trees, which, interspersed with 
a few other trees such as palms, covered the surrounding country, but nowhere formed 
thick cover. There were a few pools at which these buffaloes drank. They fed and 
rested alternately throughout the day and night. We found a bull grazing at mid- 
day. They rested, standing or lying down, among the nearly leafless thorn-trees, 
which gave scant shelter from the sun.—(Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Histories African 
Game Animals, vol. 1, p. 411.) 
Genus OVIS Linnzus. 
1758. Ovis Linna&us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 70. (O. aries.) 
1762. Aries Brisson, Regn. Anim., ed. 2, p. 12.. (O. aries.) 
1798. Musmon ScHRANK, Fauna Boica, vol. 1, p. 78. (pro Ovis; not of Pallas, 
1776.) 
1816. Ammon BLAINVILLE, Bull. Soc. Philom., p. 76. May. (pro Ovis.) 
A single pair of horns of one of the African breeds of the domestic 
sheep was brought home with material collected by the Smithsonian 
African Expedition. 
OVIS ARIES Linnzus. 
1758. Ovis aries LINNHUus, Syst. Nat.,ed. 10, vol.1,p.70. (Sweden; the domestic 
sheep.) 
Specimens.—Two, as follows: 
Supan: Nubia, 1 (Berlin Mus.). 
British Kast Arrica: Lake Naivasha, 1 pair of horns of the 
‘““Masai sheep”’ (Mearns). 
The sheep in the immediate vicinity of Nairobi are those of the Kikuyu. They are 
a very mixed breed, having been continually influenced by importations of sheep 
from other tribes. The Kikuyu bush-country is not a sheep-country in the sense that 
the plain country is, and no special type seems to have perpetuated itself there. In 
the Masai country near Nairobi, and in other parts, the sheep are a distinct type, 
being perhaps the best in the Protectorate. They are large, hairy, fat-tailed sheep, 
and the predominating colour is brown. The tail is short.—(Lydekker, The Sheep 
and its Cousins, p. 210. 1913. Letter from the Director of Agriculture at Nairobi.) 
The specimen from Nubia was received from the Berlin Zoological 
Museum in 1867 and is entered as Ovis recurvicauda. It represents 
the Ovis pachycerca recurvicauda or the Ovis pachycerca jubata of 
Fitzinger.' 
1 Wiss.-pop. Naturg. Siugethiere, vol. 5, pp. 43-45. Wien, 1860. 
