Liberia *- 



example of the Senegalese type which had wandered southwards 

 into the forest region, or, as is alleged to happen elsewhere 

 in Africa, it may have been an old bull of the red-haired breed 

 which with age assumed a greyish brown colour. 



The forest-haunting buffalo of Liberia, however, is indis- 

 putably of a yellow colour in its pelage, darkening on the 



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front of the limbs into umber or blackish brown. The colour 

 is perhaps not so much reddish as ochre-yellow. The horns 

 of course are far simpler in shape and development than those 

 of the big black buffalo. The animal is probably a rather 

 primitive and ancient type, less removed from such forms as 

 the anoa. It would be interesting if observations could be 

 made on the exact coloration of the young of this dwarf red 



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