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606, a. Frontlet and horns (fig. 20). Type ; locality 

 unknown, but probably from some part of Congo territory. 

 Described in 1686 by Grew, Earities of Gresham College ; and 

 again described, with a figure, by Pennant in 1781. In 1785 

 Boddaert gave it the name Bos nanus, in 1792 it was 

 renamed B. 2^u7nilus by Kerr, and in 1863 it received from 

 Blytli the title B. reclinis. In his Gatalogite of 1852 Gray 

 figured it as the young of the Cape buffalo. The name 

 pumihis was revived by Sir V. Brooke in 1873, and agahi in 

 1875, v^ith. planiceros and hrachyceros as synonyms. 



Presented hy the Council of the Royal Society. 



T.— Bos caffer bedding-toni. 



Bos (Bubalus) caffer beddingtoni, LydeJclier, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, 

 p. 240. 



Typical locality Ashanti. 



Size apparently larger than in last ; horns less strongly 

 angulated ; less abundant ear-fringes ; no dark dorsal stripe. 

 In the type specimen the shoulder-height is 51 J, the outside 

 length of horns 20J, palm-width 6^, tip-to-tip interval 13J-, 

 and outside span 23J inches. 



99. 10. 23. 4. Mounted skin. Ashanti. Type. Although 

 the legs are darker than the body, there is no black mane on 

 the neck. Presented hy C. Beddington, Esq., 1899. 



U. — Bos caffer simpsoni. 



Bos caffer simpsoni, LycleTiker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 993, The Ox 

 and Its Kindred, p. 240, 1912. 



Typical locality left bank of Kwilu Eiver, Belgian Congo. 



Size medium ; both sexes dark coloured ; horns relatively 

 small and regularly curved in a subcircular form. 



The horns approximate in general character to those of 

 nanus and exceed any recorded for the latter, the right horn in 

 a bull (fig. 21) measuring 25| inches along the outer curve 

 and the left one 24J inches ; the basal girth of the former 

 being 16 J inches, its maximum width 6| inches, and the 

 expanse from tip to tip 13 J inches. In a cow the left horn 

 measured 15 inches in length, with a girth of 9^ and an 



