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Oxen 



and liiinks ; chest and upper part of fore-legs light grayish-brown ; fore- 

 legs from knees downwards blackish-brown ; long hairs on margins of ears 

 brown, longer in the cows than in bulls ; tail-tuft black. Horns of the 

 same general type as in the Cape race, but relatively shorter, not greatly 

 exceeding the skull in length, separated in both sexes, except sometimes on 

 the extreme vertex of the head, by a broad hairy space between their bases, 

 which are very much flattened ; spreading at first almost horizontally 

 outwards, and sometimes retreating less behind the plane ot the eyes ; the 

 bases not developed into prominent bosses. Pits on forehead of skull very 

 small and almost concealed by overhanging plates of bone. 



Apart from skulls, I am acquainted with this race by a mounted 

 specimen from Abyssinia in the British Museum, by a skeleton from 

 Abyssinia in the same collection, and by the figure ot the head of an 

 example formerly living at Berlin given by Sir V. Brooke in plate xlii. 

 of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the year 1873, under the 

 name of B. piimihis. In the British Museum mounted specimen the 

 hair on the body is thicker than I should have inferred to be the case from 

 Sir V. Brooke's description. From pUuiiccros the present race appears 

 distinguishable by its darker colour, and the darker brown hairs on the 

 margin of the ears. 



The following dimensions of horns are recorded by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward :— 



