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Bubalus pumilus, BrooJie, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 482, pi. liv, 1875, 

 p. 485, Anil. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xiii, p. 159, 1874 ; 

 Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, 

 p. 230, 1884 ; Fechuel-Loesche, Zool. Jahrh. Syst. vol. iii, p. 711, 

 pi. xxviii, figs. 3, 4, 1888 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. 

 ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 83, 1897. 



Bubalus pumilus occidentalis, BrooTte, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 483. 



Bubalus brachyceros, Bocage, J. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. i, p. 25, 

 1890; Matschie, Sciugethiere Togogehieies, p. 19, 1893, nee 

 Gray. 



Bos caffer nanus, LydeJiker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 106, 

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

 Kindred, p. 237, 1912, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 240; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 424, 1910. 



Bubalus nanus, Matschie Sitzher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1896, p. 164. 



Syncerus nanus, Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxiv, 

 p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality probably the Congo. 

 Bo ill sexes rufous at all ages, apparently with a dark 

 dorsal stripe ; ears heavily fringed with orange hairs ; axis 



Fig. 20. — Frontlet and Horns of Congo Buffalo {Bos caffer nanus). 

 From Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats. 



of points of horns forming a right angle witli that of the 

 basal portion — which is much flattened — so that the tip-to- 

 tip interval is very small. Bodily size small. 



