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Oxen 



specimens are essential before the point can be regarded as settled. Not 

 impossibly the skull oi a female buffalo with a gray pelage figured by Dr. 

 Pechuel-Loesche in the memoir cited above, may prove to belong to the 

 present form. Unfortunately, the exact locality whence that specimen was 

 obtained is unknown. 



Fig. 23. — Skull and horns of male Lake Tchad Buffalo. From the type specimen 

 in the Briti>h Museum. 



In the presumed male the horns have a length of 18] inches along the 

 outer curve, with a basal circumstance of io| inches, and an interval ot 

 5^ inches between the tips. In the presumed female ^ the corresponding 

 dimensions are 17, ii-^, and 6| inches. 



' In the Records of Big Game, p. 275, Mr. Rowland Ward takes the same view as to the sexes of 

 these two skulls. 



