IO( 



Oxen 



d. Congo, or Red Race — Bos caffer nanus 



Bos nanus, Boddaert, E/cnchus Anini. p. 152 (17H5) ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Givnc, p. 275 (1896), in part. 



Bos punulus, Kan-, Aniin. Kingdom, p. 340 (1792) ; Turton, Transl. Linn. 

 Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 121 (1806) ; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acc/ini. Paris, vol. xxxviii. 

 p. ^^4:5 (1891), in part; Flower and hyt^ckker, Sti/dy of Maninni/s, -^p. :;6i 

 (1891) ; Brehni, 'licrlchcn, — Sdiigct/i. vol. iii. p. 319 (1891). 



Fig. 21. — Frontlet and horns of aged bull of the Congo Buffalo. From the type 

 specimen in the British Museum. 



Bos brachyccros, Pd, Bi/dr. tot Dierki/ndc,yp. 33 (i 854), /'at Sundevall, 1846. 

 Bos hrachicheros, Du Chaillu, Exp/or. Eqnat. Africa, p. 210 (1861). 

 Buhahis rccUnis, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 187:;, p. 158 ; Gray, Cat. Rumi- 

 nants Brit. Mus. p. 12 (1872), Hand- list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 82 



Bubalus pumilus, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 482, pi. liv., 1875, 

 p. 485, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xiii. p. 159 (1874) ; Flower and 



