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separating the Shari horns from thierryi, and they are 

 referred provisionally to that race. 



Presented hy Dr. H. K. W. Kumm, 1910. 



0.— Bos cafFer mayi. 



Bubalus mayi, Matscliie Sitzbcr. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, p. 172. 



Bos caffer mayi, LydeJcker, Game Animals of Africa, p. 72, 1908. 



Syncerus mayi, Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wasliington, vol. xxiv, 

 p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality Bengo, Loanda. 



In this race the horns, which are approximated at the 

 tips, have a decided upward direction recalling in some 

 degree those of the Pliilippine Bos mindorensis ; their tips 

 tapering gradually and slightly, and their length not exceed- 

 ing one- third of the total horn-length. Colour apparently 

 undescribed. 



Type seemingly a drawing in the Eoyal Library, Berlin. 



No example in the collection. 



P.— Bos caffer brachyceros. 



Bubalus brachyceros. Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i, p. 587, 1837, List 

 Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 153, 1843, Cat. Ungidata Brit. Mils. p. 24, 

 1852, Cat. Baminants Brit. Mus. p. 10, 1872, Hand-List 

 Puminants Brit. Mus. p. 81, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol. xii, p. 499, 1873, xiii, p. 258, 1874 ; Bhjth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1863, p. 157; Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, pp. 161, 

 174. 



Bos brachyceros, Sundevall, K. Svensha Vet. -Ah. Handl. 1844, 

 p. 153, 1846. 



Bubalus brachycerus, Gerrard, Cat. Bodies Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 227, 1862. 



Bubalus pumilus, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 482, 1875, p. 455. 

 Bos caffer brachyceros, Lydehker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 



p. 112, 1898, Game Animals of Africa, p. 72, 1908, The Ox and 



Its Kindred, p. 243, 1912, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 240; 



Alexander, From the Niger to the Congo, vol. ii, p. 394, 1907 ; 



Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 424, 1910. 



Syncerus brachyceros, Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. xxiv, p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality Lake Chad district. 



The following tentative key {Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 241) 

 to the named races of West African dwarf buffaloes in 



