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adult) ; Pel, Bijdruy Dieikunde, p. 33, t. 1 & 2 (skull aud horns, 

 adult). 



Hah. Central Africa (5rt/A:('e,B.M.); North-east Africa (//ew^r/m) ; 

 Guinea {Pel). 



The specimen of the skull in the British Museum, which appears 

 to be older than the others, has horns not more than an inch apart, 

 while those figured by Pel and Heuglin are further apart ; but this 

 may be caused by the age of the animal. 



a. Bos planiceros, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 157, fig. 4, 1866, p. 371. 

 Horns in the Museum of King's College, and second in the " Museum 

 of the lioyal College of Surgeons, in the catalogue of which it has 

 been assigned to the Gayal {Bos frontalis) of Transbrahmaputran 

 regions, to which species it was not even specifically allied— it 

 being unquestionably the frontlet of a veritable Buffalo, and of 

 the African type, as distinguished from the Asiatic, as exemplified 

 by Bubalus cuffer and B. brachi/ceros." — Blyth, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 157, 

 f. 4. 



b. Bubalus caffer, var. equinoctialis, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 372, 

 f . 1 & la. Described from a frontlet obtained in Equatorial Africa 

 by Mr. Petherick, and probably is the same species with the horns 

 quite united at the base, which may depend on age. 



4. Bubalus reclinis. B.M. 



Horns very nearly close together at the base, and flat, directed 

 backwards, incurved, and nearly touching at the tip. 



Bubalus caffer, ]m\., Gray, Cat. Unqul. B. M. p. 28, t. 2. f. 3 (horns). 

 Bos reclinis, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 158, f. 3. 



Hab. Africa. Horns (from Mus. E. S.) only known. 



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Skull short. Forehead convex on each side. Horns much odarged and, 

 in adults, close together at the base, spread out on the side of the head, and 

 recurved at the tips, ivhich are bent fonvard over the horns ; ribs very 

 tvide. Syuceros. 



5. Bubalus caffer. (The Cape Buffalo.) B.M. 



Bubalus caffer, Grat/, Cat. Unr/ul B. M. p. 28, t. 2. f. 2 (skull) ; 

 Blyth, P. Z. S. 18(36, p. 372, i 2 (horns). 



Hab. South Africa ; Central Africa. In heavy grass. 



3. ANOA. 



Horns subtrigonal, nearly parallel, round at the top, depressed 

 at the base, sligbtly keeled on the inner edge, straight, nearly on 

 the plane of the face, on the hinder edge of the frontal ridge. 

 Intermaxillary elongate, high up between the maxillaries and the 

 nasals. (Gray, Cat. Uugul. B. M. p. 29, t. 3. f. 1 & 2, skull and 

 hoi-us.) 



