10 Bovid:. 



and were described mid ligured by him in the ' Philosophical Trans- 

 actions ' for 1727, no. 397, p. 222, f. 23. _ 



These horns are 78 inches, or 6 feet 6 inches long. 

 The dimensions of Colonel Matthie's specimen are as foUows, ac- 

 cording to his measurement : — 



ft. in. 



" Length of the skull from occiput to nose 2 4 



Length of the horns round the outside of them and 



across the forehead 12 2 



Length of line from tip to tip of horns 6 8 



Circumference of right horn at base 1 8g 



Circumference of left horn at base 1 8 



Width across the forehead 11 



" The horns do not exactly correspond in length and shape." The 

 occipital portion of the skull is very much developed, to give enlarged 

 attachment to the muscles of the neck for the suppoit of the horns. 



The Aruee of Anderson, ' Bee,' 1792 (the^os arne of Kerr, ' Animal 

 Kingdom,' p. 336, t. 295, copied into Shaw's ' Zoology,' iv. p. 400, 

 t. 210), is only a large horned variety of the common Buffalo, with 

 horns nearly regularly curved from the base. The horns presented 

 by Colonel Matthie, on the other hand, are nearly straight for a great 

 part of their length, and only curved at the end. In this respect 

 they agree with the horns (in the British Museum) which Mr. Doyle, 

 whose name is " given to a sort of stuffe worn in summer," discovered 

 in a cellar in Wapping, and which he gave to Sir Hans Sloane for 

 his kindness in attending him in sickness. These are described by the 

 latter in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for 1727, no. 397, p. 222, 

 f. 33 ; and redescribed and ligured by Colonel Hamilton Smith as 

 those of Bos arnee in Griffith's ' An. Kingd.' iv. t. 2Ul. f. 2, 3. 



Dr. Hook read a lecture on Mr. Doyle's horns at Gresham College, 

 and thought they were probably those of the Sulvti/w or Sitcotaria, 

 described by Nieuhof, in his ' Voyages and Travels in the East,' as 

 found at Java. He compares the horns to the tusks of the Elephant, 

 which they somewhat resemble. Dr. Shaw thought otherwise, and 

 formed a genus for Nieuhofs animal, making a figure of it from his 

 description (see ' General Zool.' i. p. 226, t. 65). Illiger considered 

 it more probably a Babvrusa. See Illiger, ' Genera Mam.' p. 100. 

 (Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Jan. 23, 1855 ; Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. 1855, 

 xvi. p. 230.) 



* * Head short, broad. Horns depressed, flat, separate or nearly dose together 

 at the base, diver (jinc/ otdtvards and havkwards; tips more or less incurved 

 behind the base of the horns. Ears very larye, fringed. Planiceros. 



2. Bubalus brachyceros. (The Zamoose.) B.M. 



Horns far apart at the base, bent obliquely outwards and then 

 backwards ; forehead flat, with a large subtriangular deep cavity 

 over the orbits. 



Bubalus brachvceros, drug, Cat. Vngul. B. M. p. i'4, 1. 1. f. 2 (skull 



