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Society's collection and described by Grew in 1686 ; 

 these are now in the British Museum. The bush 

 cow is still comparatively little known ; the late Dr. 

 Gray, however, records that Mr. Cross, of the Surrey 

 Zoological Gardens, received a living female from 

 Sierra Leone in 1839. In 1872 a pair of this 

 race immature animals, but growing fast were 

 exhibited in the collection at Berlin. The present 

 writer in 1900 inspected and photographed a pair 

 of " buffle nain du Sengal," then living in the 

 Antwerp Zoological Gardens. 1 These animals were 

 both of a blackish brown colour, and apparently 

 belonged to one of the races intermediate between 

 the bush cow and the Cape form ; the horns sloped 

 backwards almost in the plane of the forehead, 

 being more curved in the female than the male. 

 The bull was savage enough, rushing up to the 

 railings and fiercely butting them with his armed 

 head ; the cow was quite tame. They were kept 

 in separate pens ; the keeper said they would fight 

 if placed together. 



In May, 1906, the writer also photographed a 

 dwarf buffalo (Bos centralis) one of the inter- 

 mediate forms deposited in the London Zoological 

 Gardens on November 21, 1904. It was a 

 good healthy specimen, well covered all over 

 with dark blackish brown hair tinged with 



1. Renshaw: "Short-horned Buffaloes in the Antwerp Zoological 

 Gardens." Proc.Zool. Soc., 1904. 



