424 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Horns of old Male Senegambian Buffalo, from the type specimen 

 in the British Museum. 



C. SMALLER AFRICAN BUFFALOES. 



Bona of the Hausas. 



Lake Tchad Buffalo (Bos coffer brachyceros}. 

 Senegambian Buffalo (Bos coffer planiceros]. 

 Dwarf Congo Buffalo (Bos coffer nonus). 



Despite the enormous differences, alike in size, colour, and the form 

 of the horns, between the little red buffalo of the Congo and its gigantic 

 black cousin of the Cape, such a gradual and apparently complete 

 transition can be traced from the one type to the other, that both 

 seem local modifications of one very variable animal. In the dwart 

 buffalo of the Congo the colour of the hair is red or yellow, the ears 

 are fringed with very long hair, and the horns are much flattened at 

 the base, with long smooth tips directed upwards. This type may be 

 traced, with some modifications, to the Gaboon and Gambia ; but in 

 the interior of Senegambia it apparently passes into the larger brown 

 buffalo, with more laterally expanded and recurved horns, known as 

 B. coffer planiceros. And this latter is, in its turn, very close to the 

 Abyssinian buffalo (B. coffer cequinoctialis} of North-East Central Africa, 

 which is nearly allied to the typical Cape form. Another type is 

 indicated by the Lake Tchad buffalo (B. coffer bracyceros], first dis- 



