THT: SELOT'S rOLLECXTOX. 13 



Order UNGULATA. 



Family BOVID^. 

 Subfamily BOVINE. 



SOUTH AFRICAN BUFFALO. 



Stistcerus caefee caffer. 



Bos caffer, Sparrman, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. vol. xl. p. 79, 1779. 

 Bos (Bubahts) caffer, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 



p. 384, V. p. 371, 1827. 

 Bog caffer typicus, Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 97, 1898. 

 Syncerris caffer caffer, Holliister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxiv. 



p. 192. 1911. 



Size large ; liorns bent sharply backwai'ds a short distance from 

 base. General colour blackish, occasionally reddish brown. 



Of the three bulls in the Collection, No. 19. 7. 15. 39 has 

 the largest horns : — greatest Avidth outside -i^k ; inside width 

 39 ; depth of jmlm over cur\e 13^ ; spread from tip to tip 29. 

 The horns of the cow, which is a brownish red-coloured specimen, 

 are considerabh^ more slender: — greatest width outside 39 ; inside 

 width 3o|^ ; depth of palm 7; spread from tip to tip 26^. 



Typical locality, Sunday River, near Algoa Bay, South Afi-ica, 

 the range extending into Northern Natal and Rhodesia. Two 

 other forms of South African Buffalo have l)een described*, c/ar/e- 

 pensis from the Orange River Colony, and linqjopoensis from 

 Swaziland ; the horn characters that have been used to distinguish 

 these so-called species are, however, so veiy unsatisfactory that it 

 seems best to ignore these two names, and consider the followino- 

 specimens as representing the typical race, which may be called 

 the South African Buffalo. 



* Matschie. Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1900, pp. IGG & 167. 



