THE SELOrS rOLLECTTOX. 13 



Order IINGULATA. 



Family BOVID^. 

 Subfamily BOVINE. 



SOUTH AFRICAN BUFFALO. 



Stnceri^s caefer caefee. 



Bos caffer, Sparrman, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. vol. xl. p. 79, 1779. 

 Bos (Bnbahis) caffer, H. Smith, Griffiths Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 



p. 384, V. p. 371, 1827. 

 Bos caffer typicus, Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 97, 1898. 

 Syncerns caffer caffer, Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxiv. 



p. 192, 1911. 



Size large ; liorns bent sharply backwards a short distance from 

 base. General colour blackish, occasionally^ reddish brown. 



Of the three bulls in the Collection, No. 19. 7. 15. 39 has 

 the largest horns : — greatest width outside 44| ; inside width 

 89 ; depth of palm over curve 13| ; spread from tip to tip 29. 

 The horns of the cow, which is a brownish red-coloured specimen, 

 are considerably more slender : — greatest width outside 39 ; inside 

 width 35^; depth of palm 7; spread from tip to tip 26^. 



Typical locality, Sunday River, near Algoa Bay, South Africa, 

 the range extending into Northern Natal and Rhodesia. Two 

 other forms of South African Buffalo have been described*, garie- 

 pensis from the Oi*ange River Colony, and limjyopoensis from 

 Swaziland; the horn characters that have been used to distinguish 

 these so-called species are, however, so ver}^ unsatisfactory that it 

 seems best to ignore these two names, and consider the following 

 specimens as representing the typical race, which may be called 

 the South African Buffalo. 



* Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, pp. 166 & 167. 



