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though it is possible some forms of it have reached the 

 Gambia. 



The black and white or brown and white dwarf small- 

 horned cattle which are the dominant breed in the coast regions 

 of Liberia seem to be entirely of European origin and to have 

 come from Holland. The other type of Liberian cattle, 

 generally called the Mandingo ox, is an interesting form, which 



326. MANDINGO COW, LIBERIA 



in some respects suggests a dwarf variety of the Egyptian long- 

 horned, straight-backed, uniform-coloured cattle. But I am 

 inclined to think that this Mandingo ox, which is the dominant 

 type of the Mandingo Plateau and the regions of the Upper 

 Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and the western Fula countries, is 

 a hybrid between Bos taurus and Bos agyptiacus. As will be seen 

 from my photographs and drawings, done from specimens of 

 th?se cattle in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the horns do not tak^ 



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