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other to an immature animal. An immature skull in the same museum 

 from the Gabun (91, 3, 36, i) has horns very similar in shape to the type, 

 the tips almost meeting, hut smaller and less rugose. The frontlets and 

 horns of a hull and cow from the Congo figured in Dr. Pechuel-Loesche's 

 memoir are almost identical with the type, although the interval between 

 their tips is greater ; and Messrs. Rowland Ward recently had a series 

 of specimens of horns of both sexes, probably from the Congo, exhibiting 

 the same form. In a quite young specimen from the Gabun, in the British 

 Museum, the horns are in the form of straight upright spikes. Du Chaillu 

 describes the niare of the Gabun as having horns very similar to those of 

 the type specimen, although they are ill-represented in his figure. In the 

 type specimen the length of the horn along the outer curve is 2 i ^r inches, 

 the basal circumference I2| inches, and the interval between the tips ot 

 the two 2j inches. 



The British Museum possesses the mounted skin of an immature cow of 

 this buffalo shot by Major A. J. Arnold in the Niger territory ; two skins 

 have been described by Sir V. Brooke, and there are two others in the 

 Paris Museum. Of the latter, the first is an adult cow trom Sierra Leone 

 which was living in the Jardin des Plantes about the year 1844. Although 

 the hair has been almost entirely worn off, sufficient remains to show that 

 the general colour was yellowish-orange, with a black muzzle and legs. 

 The horns are broad and fiat at the base, with the tips incurved, but not 

 forming a sudden bend. The second is an immature bull brought from 

 the Congo by M. Dybowski ; the general colour is light yellowish-orange, 

 with the hinder part of the inner margin of the ears, the mane on the 

 neck and withers, the tail-tuft, and lower portion ot the legs black. The 

 horns are small, and show no incurving at the tips, indicating immaturity. 



Of the specimens referred to in Sir V. Brooke's memoir of 1873, one 

 is a cow from Sierra Leone, formerly living in the Surrey Zoological 

 (hardens, and of which a sketch is preserved in the Library of the Zoological 



