52 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



appreciable portion of their length, frequently with a strong 

 basal boss. Bodily size large ; skin and hair black. 



Subgroup i. 



Horns, in place of curving immediately inwards at the 

 point of maximum span, Ijending at first backwards. 



A.— Bos caffer cafFer. 



Bos caffer typicus, LydeMe?', Wild Oxen, Sheej), and Goats, p. 97, 

 1898. 



Syncerus caffer caffer, HolUster, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. xxiv, p. 192, 1911. 



Typically from Sunday Eiver, near Algoa Bay, whence 

 the range extends northwards apparently to Zululand. 



Horns without a prominent basal boss, and their smooth 

 tips diminishing very rapidly in calibre and distinctly bent 

 inwards and backwards ; maximum span occuring where 

 central axis of tips cuts the horns. 



71. 7. 3. 8. Frontlet and horns, immature. Algoa Bay. 

 From the locality, this specimen may be regarded as a 

 typical example of the present race. Purcliasecl, 1871. 



52. 2. 15. 10. Frontlet and horns. South Africa. 



FurcJiasedC^), 1852. 

 58. 5. 4. 9. Frontlet and horns. South Africa. 



Presented by the Zoological Society, 1858. 

 42. 4. 10. 14. Skull, with horns. Cape Colony. 



Purchased, 1842. 

 606, b. Skull, with horns. Locality unknown. Figured 

 in Gray's Catalogue, 1852, pi. ii. No history. 



606, i. Skull, with horos, female. Locality unknown. 



No history. 

 50. 11. 22. 101. Skeleton, mounted, belonging to tliis or 

 one of the allied races. South Africa. 



Presented by the Zoological Society, 1850. 

 606, c. Yery young skull, with the budding horns, and 

 body-skin. Cape Colony ; collected by Verreaux. 



Purchased. 



