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2. BUUALTJS. 11 



M:Sa (Sr;:r «-^- (^^^^'t/^^^^O, Gaboon ^B.M.J. Central 



m2I^" f °;;d beHeve that the ' N^t^ ' (the Wild EuU of Equatorial 

 Alrica)- Bos braehycheros on the ^late at p. 175/of Du ChailS's / 

 Travels, and agam on the plate entitled ' the Leopardlnd hi prey 'a ^ 

 p. 1^5, and also where it is shown tossing a native, at p. SOjSl'the 

 same animal as ^os brac?ujceros described bv me in the^' Mat^£e of 



fowf p'^Sn /s-^'vl'r' '^ *'^ '^^^^^« of NaturirSry,' 

 tho ^^: r ,' V. • ^''^ ^^^ specimen in the collection leaves not 

 the shghtest doubt on the subject ■ and also shows that the pos tSn 



with natu" Z'^.f/^'^'V''''' -P--"tations is not content 

 witH natme, for they are aU represented as having the horns re 

 curved from the root, while they ought to have been represented as 

 spreading out on the sides, and only recurved at the tL so tha 

 persons who might be inclined to doibt the identity of my Bos ta 

 chycejos and M. Du Chaillu's Bos brachycheros (whi^ch, b7the by at 

 p. 1/4, and again at p. 306, he calls 'a quite ne^ and hithe'rto 

 undescnbed species of Buffalo') must not be led away by thisTn- 

 accuracy m the representation of the animals, to believe the travel 

 ler's statement, and regard the two animals noticed under such neiri; 

 similar names as two species. ^ 



" ^s to the animal being ' new and undescnbed,' I may state that 

 It and Its habits were described by Denham and CkpTeln who 

 brought home a head of it, now in the British Museum imde'rThe 

 name of the 'Zamouse;' that it was described and fig, r d bj^ m^ 

 Zllu f I" referred to; and that it was described b/ Dr! 

 Kuppell as found m Abyssinia. -^ 



"I may observe that I am not inclined to place more reKance on 

 his statement of the habits of this animal than the figures S us 

 sLtsTatn r^r'l'' "^"'''^ '''' representation o^f it. He de- 

 'I do not tt-uk\i ' « t '■'7 T'"S'' ^'''^' ^^^1 ^t p. 306 remarks, 

 oJfl Zi \' If"' hmchycheros, the wild buU of this country 

 conld be tamed.' The specimen which I described, on the contrary 



o the 7 T"r"lV\^^' Surrey Zoological Gardens, and then went 

 to the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, where it died; its skin is pre- 

 served m the Museum of that Institution. It ^as as tame and 



tStsS r '°T°" '''''''■ ^' '^ ''''' ^---- "t Sierra 1" ne as 

 the Bush Cow, and appears to be generally distributed over inter- 

 tropical Afnca."-Gnnj, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1861, vol. ^Ip. 468. 



3. Bubalus centralis. B3f 



Horns close together, but separate at the base ; moderately Ions ■ 

 spreading out horizontally on the sides, and then recurved and £-' 

 curved at the tip. Only a small groove over each orbit. 



Bos brachyceros {Gra>,?), Heu,,lin, Buffles, t. ;]. f. l^. 12,, (,kull. 



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