58 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



86. 5. 5. 2. Skin, female, mounted. Same locality and 

 collector. Purchased, 1886. 



GROUP II. 



Horns, as a rule relatively small and extending upwards 

 and outwards from their bases more or less nearly in 

 the same place, without strongly developed basal bosses. 

 Bodily size medium or small ; colour of hair generally dun, 

 reddish, or brown in females and young males, and 

 occasionally in adult bulls ; but in some cases adults of both 

 sexes dark. 



K.— Bos caffer aequinoctialis. 



Bubalus caffer aequinoctialis, Bli/th, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 371 ; 

 Pechuel-Loesche, Zool. Jahrb. Sysf. vol. iii, p. 713, pi. xxvii, 1888. 



Bubalus pumilus orientalis, Broo'ke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 483, 

 pi. xlii. 



Bubalus aequinoctialis, Bi-ooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 457 ; 

 Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 87, 1897 ; 

 Matschie, Sitzher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, pp. 161, 174. 



Bos aequinoxialis, Hiiet, Bull. Soc. AccUjii. Paris, vol. xxxviii, p. 337, 

 1891. 



Bubalus caffer equinoctialis. Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 12, 



1872. 



Bos centralis. Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 265, 1896, nee Gray. 

 Bos caffer aequinoctialis, LydeJcJcer, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and. Goats, 



p. 101, 1898, Game Animals of Africa, p. 73, 1908 ; Ward, Records 



of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 422, 1910. 



S^Ticerus caffer aequinoctialis. Heller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. xxiv, p. 192, 1911. 



Typified by a frontlet and horns collected hj Consul 

 Petherick in East Equatoria ; the range includes a large part 

 of the AVhite Xile region. 



This race forms to a certain deij^ree a connecting: link 

 between the first and second groups, the bodily size being 

 considerable, and the horns relatively large and to some 

 extent inclining backwards in their middle portion. Tips of 

 horns, according to Matschie, short, and less than one-third 

 total horn-length ; they taper rapidly, and are directed more 

 inward than backward, and their axis forms an anjxle of about 

 56'' with the basal portion of the horns, which is considerably 

 thickened. General colour blackish brown, with a dark 

 tail-tip. 



