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above the surface. The horns are also smaller and less 

 wide-spread. The very largest only reach 40 inches, an 

 average horn spread being but 32 inches. In size and shape 

 they closely resemble the horns of the cow of the East Afri- 

 can race. A single specimen is in the National Museum, 

 a bull shot by Colonel Roosevelt near Rhino Camp, in the 

 Lado Enclave. This specimen is quite equal in body and 

 skull measurements to the East African ones. The flesh 

 measurements were: head and body, no inches; tail, 28 

 inches; hind foot, 24 inches; ear, io3^ inches. Basal length 

 of skull, 19^ inches; zygomatic breadth, 9 inches. Maxi- 

 mum horn spread, 31^ inches; length along inside curve, 

 25 inches; width of palm, straight, S}i inches. Specimens 

 have been recorded by Powell-Cotton in the upper Hawash 

 Valley and the central plateau region of Abyssinia, near 

 Lake Tana. Buffalo have been shot and recorded by sports- 

 men frequently along both banks of the upper Nile, from 

 Wadelai southward to the Sobat River. A specimen shot by 

 Paul Niedieck in this district has a horn spread of 44 inches, 

 which is 3 inches in excess of the previous known record for 

 the race. 



