24 MAMMALIA. 
laries elongate, extending back and between the nasal and cheek 
bones ; teats in a cross series, the outer one rather before the 
others. 
Bubalus, H. Smith in Griff. A. K. v. 182; im Fischer, Syn. 681. 
Bos (bubali), Sundevall, Pecora, 77. 
Bubalus, sp., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 
Syncerus, Hodgson, 1847. 
* Horns separate, not dilated at the base, directed backwards and 
incurved at the tip. Bubalus, Hodgson. 
1. BUBALUS BRACHYCERUS. The ZAMOUSE. 
Forehead flat ; horns short, thick, depressed at the base; ears 
very large, strongly frmged on the edge, and with two diverging 
longly friged lines within ; fur short, close, brown. Male adult 
with tuft of long hair on legs. 
Bos brachyceros, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, t. 589 ; Ann. Nat. 
Hist. 11. 284. t. 13, young female; List Mam. B. M. 153; Can 
Osteol. Sp. B. M. 54; Roulin, D’Orb. Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat. 
(Beuf) i. 
Bubalus brachycerus, Gray, Knowsley Menag. ; Turner, P. Z.S. 
1849. 
Bos bubalus, Children in Denham & Clapperton’s Trav. in Africa. 
Zamouse, Denham and Clapperton’s Trav. Cent. Africa. 
Bos Caffer, Ruppell, Abyssinia, spec. in Mus. Frankfort. 
Bos Caffer junior ?, Sundevall, Pecora, 202. 
Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Abyssinia. 
Two heads of adult covered with the skm. Central Africa. 
Presented by Capt. Clapperton, R.N. 
OsTEOLOGY. 
Skeleton of female. Gambia. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 
Mr. Blyth has noticed two species of Wild Ox found im North- 
west Africa :— 
1. Sherif al Wady (Bos Atlanticus, Blyth), from Mount Atlas. 
One lived some months at Tangiers. 
2. Wadan? or Pecasse ?, with a flowimg nuchal mane; found 
in large herds at Rabat and Salee, on the aii Coast.—Aan. 
N. H. ix. 62.—This is no doubt the 
Bos Pegassus, H. Smith, Griff. A. K. iv. 386. t.v. 890; Fischer, 
Syn. Mam. 652; Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. u. 288. 
Pegassus, Pliniit Hist. Nat. viii. 21. Wadan, Lyon’s Travels. 
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