28° MAMMALIA. 
3. BUBALUS CAFFER. The CAPE BUFFALO. ; 
Forehead broad. Horns roundish at the end, depressed, and 
very rugose at the base ; near the base becoming dilated, at length 
very broad, rugose, very convex, and close together over the 
forehead. Ears very large, half as large as the head, broad, 
acute, ciliated. Skim bluish purple or black, nearly naked, with 
some two-rowed diverging bristles on the middle of the back. 
Bos caffer, Sparm. K. S. Veter. Akad. 1774-79, t. 3; Griffith, 
A. K. iv. 384. t. . young, v. 889; Harris, Wild Animals 
Africa, t.13, and head; Zimmerm. Geogr. Gesch. 11. 90; Gmelin, 
S. N. i. 207; Schreb. Saugth. t. 301; Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. 
v. 28; Rég. Anim. i. 271; Desm. Nouv. Dict. H. N. ui. 527 ; 
Mam. 494; Ency. Meéth. t. 45. f.5; Thunb. Mém. Act. Pe- 
tersb. 111. 318; Vollborth, Comm. Anat. Berol. 1826; Desmoul. 
Dict. Class. H. N. ii. 367 ; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 494, 652. 
Bubalus caffer, Gray, List Mam. B. M. 153; Cat. Osteol. Sp. B. 
M. 54; Turner, Proc. Z. Soc. 1849. 
Cape Ox, Pennant; Shaw, Zool. ii. 416; Harris, W. Anim. Afr. 
He ts & 
Buffel, Sparm. Reise, 297, 379, &c. t. 2. 
Dawf Ox, Pennant, Syn. Quad. i. 9. t. 2. f. 3, young horns. 
Wilde Buffel, Dutch at Cape; Forster, Reise die Weld, 1. 85. 
Qu’araho, Hottentots. 
Cape Buffalo, Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 751, 753. 
Buffalo, Bewick, Hist. Quad. 47. 
Hab. S. Africa, in the Deserts, near Cape of Good Hope. 
A male, not ina good state. South Africa. Presented by W. 
Burchell, LL.D. 
Amale. South Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 
OsrroLocy. Skulls, adult and young, t. 2. f. 1, 2, 3. 
Buffle de Cap, Daub. in Buffon H. N. xi. 416. t. 41; Cuvier, Oss. 
Foss. iv. 132. t. 9. f. 14, 15 ; Vollborth, de Bobus, &c. 1826, t. 3. 
Frontal bone and horns, young. South Africa. From Mus. 
Royal Society. 
Skull and horns. South Africa. 
Skull and horns. South Africa. 
Skeleton of male. South Africa. From the Gardens of the 
Zoologica) Society. 
The horns of the young specimen are depressed and rugose, 
and very different from. those of B. brachyceros, which Prof. 
Sundevall considers as the young of this species. The pair of 
young horns which was in the Museum of the Royal Society 
(Grew, Rar. 26), figured by Pennant (Syn. t. 2. f. 3), is now in 
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