418 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Horns of African Buffalo from the Limpopo (Mr. F. H. Barber’s specimen). 
The AFRICAN BUFFALO (Bos [Bubalus] caffer). 
Gdmus, Sudani. Mbogo and Nyati, Swahili. 
Gédérs, Galla. Nadi, in Barotsi and Ngami. 
Inyatt, Swazi and Zulu. Nari, Basuto. 
Mobva and Nyati, Chilala and Chibisa. Beva, Hausa. 
All African buffaloes may be regarded as referable to a single 
species, of which the extreme forms are represented by the great 
black Capé buffalo and the small red buffalo of the Congo; &. «. 
cottont of the Semliki Forest, in which only adult bulls are black, being 
one of the intermediate types The number of races that have been 
named is so large that they cannot be quoted here. 
A.—SOUTHERN RACES (B. caffer typicus, etc.). 
Among the distinctive features of the typical race may be noted 
the enormous helmet-like mass formed by the closely approximated 
bases of the horns in old bulls, the backward inclination and com- 
paratively slight angulation of the horns themselves, the shortness of 
the face, and the great width and size of the heavily fringed and 
flapping ears. In colour, both the skin and the sparse hairs with 
which it is clothed are for the most part jetty black; the hairs 
themselves being directed uniformly backwards from the nape to the 
rump. Height at shoulder about 5 feet. 
Distribution.—Southern and Eastern Africa. Except on the Zambesi, 
Chobi, and some neighbouring rivers, buffaloes have now become 
very scarce in South Africa; but between Umtali and the east 
coast at Beira, and also from the latter station to the mouth of 
the Zambesi, they are to be met with in vast herds, and a few 
