Senegambian Buffalo 103 



Distribution. — From Abyssinia and the south of Somahhuul through the 

 Sudan for a long distance up tlie White Nile. The habits of this race are 

 probably not essentially, if in any respect, different trom those of its cousin 

 of the Cape. 



c. Senegambian Race — Bos caffer planiceros 



Buhdhis planiceros., Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 157. 



Biibaliis centre! /is. Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mas. p. 11 (1872), Hand- 

 list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. II (1873); Matschie, Sciugcthiere Togogcbietcs, 

 p. 19 (1893) ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv. p. 87 (1897). 



Characters. — The West African representative ot the preceding race, 

 to which it is closely allied, and with which it probably intergrades in the 

 central districts of equinoctial Africa, as it also does with the Congo race 

 in the hinterland of Sierra Leone. Size somewhat smaller than in the last 

 race. Horns very similar to those of (rquinoctialis, but shorter, directed less 

 outwardly (forming an angle of about 45 degrees with the middle 

 line of the skull), receding to a less extent behind the plane of the eyes, 

 and in very old bulls closely approximated at their bases. General colour 

 of adult bulls dark blackish-brown, becoming lighter on the hind-quarters, 

 thighs, and muzzle ; limbs coloured like body ; no distinct black muzzle ; 

 ears black inside, with the marginal fringe moderately developed. 

 Younger bulls, and probably cows, with the hair longer and lighter 

 coloured, assuming a brownish-red tinge on the fore-quarters. Pits on 

 forehead ot skull small. 



The type of the Buha/us planiceros oi Blyth is the frontlet and horns of 

 a very old bull, formerly preserved at King's College, London, but now in 

 the British Museum. There is no record as to the place of origin ot this 

 specimen, which is shown in the accompanying tigure. The points ot the 

 horns are so worn as to be blunt and rounded, and the rugosities upon their 



