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I did not see any quite young calves. The smallest were about half grown 
and had already the colour of the adult. 
On the northern side of Guaso Nyiri the Buffaloes had their well beaten tracks 
along which they went to the water, but they did not appear to use the same every 
night. Their pasture-lands were mostly situated at some distance from the river. 
The herd out of which I shot the bull was found about 6—7 kilometres from the 
river, and at another opportunity I saw a couple of bulls at a still greater distance 
from the water. During the hottest hours they usually stand resting under some 
acacia or a big thornbush, but I have also seen them wandering about and grazing 
about 1 o’clock at noon. They feed on the coarse grass which grows here and there 
in the thornbush. When they rest they hold the forehead almost horizontal and 
the large fringed ears droop below the bases of the horns. 
Fig. 5 b. Buffelus caffer raddcliffet 9. 
When badly wounded they give went to a grunting bellow’ and even since 
they have fallen and lie dying they continue with short intervals to utter a kind of 
moaning bellows at one time melancholic and wild. Their tenacity of life is well 
known. I shot my specimens with a soft nose 9,3 mm. Mauser bullet, the cow had 
received two bullets through her chest so that she bled freely on both sides but stag- 
gered any way against me ready to charge when she dropped for the third in the 
brain. The buJl got the upper end of the left humerus smashed and the bullet con- 
tinued into his heart, but he tried to gallop away when a bullet from behind dropped 
him. The cows of the herd collected then around him evidently bent on a charge 
but were turned off by some quickly repeated shot from a shot gun. 
The Buffaloes, especially the cow, were infested with numerous ticks of the 
species Amblyomma hebreum Kocu’® which although widely distributed in East Africa 
has not been found on this host before. 
1 Some natives told me that it was a sure sign that the Buffalo was severely wounded if he grunted 
that way. If he was silent after the shot, it was »no good» they said. 
2 Conf. L. G. Neumann: Ark. f. Zoologi. Stockholm. Bd. 7, n:o 24. 
