68 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



The following are tlie dimensions, in inches, of the horns 

 of bills of Gambian and South Nigerian races, together with 

 those of the Alexander-Gosling skull from the Ubangui 

 referred to the Lake Chad race : — 



Lake Chad. Gambian. 8. Nigerian. 



No. No. Head described in 



4. 7. 9. 13. 7. 7. 8. 254. P. Z. S. 1913. 



Outside length 25^ 27i 20i 



Palm breadth 6f H 7i 



Tip-to-tip interval Hi 21^ 12 



12. 11. 16. 1. Mounted head of female. Southern 

 Nigeria. Type ; figured by the writer, loc. cit. The 

 following are the measurements of the horns in the larger 

 of the two type specimens of B. c. hrachyccros and the 

 present specimen : — 



Lake Chad. S. Nigerian. 



Outside length 17^ 12 



Palm breadth 4 3| 



Tip-to-tip interval 7 9^ 



Presented hy Lieut. A. IV. Hunt, R.N., 1912. 



98.5.24.1. Mounted skin of immature female. Lokoja, 

 at the junction of the Benue Eiver with the Niger. There 

 is no black mane on the neck. Purchased, 1898. 



98. 5. 24. 1, a. Skull, without lower jaw, of the preceding 

 specimen. Same history 



10. 6. 1. 46. Skin. Gamoning Valley, Oban, Southern 

 Nigeria. The general colour is rufous, with the low^er part 

 of the legs blackish ; there is no black mane. 



Presented hy P. A. Talhot, Esq., 1910. 



S. — Bos eafFep nanus. 



Bos nanus, Boddaert, Ele7ichus Anim. p. 152, 1785 ; Ward, Becoi'da 



of Big Game, p. 275, 1896. 

 Bos pumilus, Kerr, Anim. Kingdo^n, p. 340, 1792 ; Turton, Transl. 



Linn. Sijst. Nat. vol. i, p. 121, 1806 ; Huet, Bull Soc. Acclim. 



Paris, vol. xxxviii, p. 343, 1891, in ;part ; Floiver and LydeJckeVy 



Study ofMammaU, p. 361, 1891 ; Brelim, Tierlehen, ed. 3, Sdugeth. 



vol. iii, p. 321, fig. 1891. 

 Bos brachyceros. Pel, Bijdr. tot DierJcunde, p. 33, 1854, nee Sunde- 



vail. 

 Bos brachicheros, Du Chaillu, Explor. Equat. Africa^ p. 210, 1861. 

 Bubalus reclinis, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 158; Gray, Cat. 



Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 12, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 82, 1873. 



