Sene^ambian Buffalo 



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on the body the tint is darker than in ihnius^ while the muzzle and limbs 

 are lighter ; there is no black mane along the neck, and the tringe on the 

 margin of the ears is less elongated, and the whole interior ot the ears 

 black. The horns are comparatively small, and trt)m their immaturity 

 present no very distinctive characters. 



At the same time, it must be remarked that it is frequently very 

 difficult to distinguish immature examples oi this race trom specimens 

 oi lid mis from Sierra Leone, where the horns never seem to attain the form 



Fig. 20. — Frontlet and horns of male Senegambian BiitFalo. From a specimen shot on 

 the Gambia in the possession of Sir R. B. Llewelyn. 



characteristic ot adult males from the Congo. This is confirmed by 

 Monsieur Pousargues, who remarks that in the Western Sudan and Upper 

 Guinea there occurs a blackish-brown buffalo regarded by some zoologists 

 as a mere variety ot piimilus [ = !iaiii/s), but by others as a distinct species 

 under the name of centralis. That it intergrades both with the northern 

 form of nanus and with planiceros, I have, as already stated, little doubt ; 

 and if this be so, it certainly cannot rank higher than a sub-species. 



Distribution. — ^The interior of Senegambia, Upper Guinea, and the 

 French Sudan — that is to say, to the north and east of the tvpical West 

 African forest region. 



