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THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



modifications should not have been carried still further in the present instance. 

 Horns of the typical short-horned buffalo range from eleven to twenty-one inches in 

 length, with a basal girth of from ten to thirteen inches. The short-horned buffalo 

 is found both in the plains and in the mountains of Western Africa, and appears to- 

 be far from uncommon. It possesses a speed almost equal to that of the larger an- 

 telopes; and when in thick cover is very difficult to drive out, except with the aid 



SHORT-HORNED BUFFALO, CONGO VARIETY. 



(One-twentieth natural size.) 



of dogs. Otherwise there does not appear to be anything specially noteworthy in its- 

 habits. 



It may be mentioned here that both in Algeria and at the Cape there 

 Extinct Forms ^ found in thg superficial deposits skulls of buffaloes allied to the 



Cape species, but with far longer horns, which did not, however, meet in a helmet- 

 like mass on the forehead. In an Algerian specimen the length of the bony horn 

 cores, measured along the curves is fully eleven feet, while in one from the Cape 

 the length is estimated at upward of fourteen feet. When covered with their horny 

 sheaths, the horns would of course be still longer. 



