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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



provisionally referred to this race. Shot during the 

 Alexander- Gosling expedition by Capt. Gosling on an island 

 in the Ubangui. Length of horns 25 J inches, tip-to-tip 

 interval 10 J inches, palm-width 6 J inches. Alexander gave 

 the tip-to-tip interval at llf inches. The colour of the skin 



Fig. 18. — Skull and Horns of Female Lake Chad Buffalo 



{Bos cajfer brachyceras). 



From Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats. 



of this bull was dull tawny, with black face, mane, ear-fringes 

 and legs ; one cow shot at the same time was similarly 

 coloured, but a second cow was a richer tawny, with the 

 forehead red. The Ubangui Kiver forms the division between 

 French and Belgian Congo. 



Presented hy Boyd Alexander, Usq., 1907. 



