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separating the Shari horns from tliierryi, and they are 

 referred provisionally to that race. 



Presented ly Dr. H. K. W. Kumm, 1910. 



0. Bos caffer mayi. 



Bubalus mayi, Matschie Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, p. 172. 

 Bos caffer mayi, LydekJcer, Game Animals of Africa, p. 72, 1908. 

 Syncerus mayi, Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxiv, 

 p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality Bengo, Loanda. 



In this race the horns, which are approximated at the 

 tips, have a decided upward direction recalling in some 

 degree those of the Philippine Bos mindorensis ; their tips 

 tapering gradually and slightly, and their length not exceed- 

 ing one- third of the total horn-length. Colour apparently 

 undescribed. 



Type seemingly a drawing in the Eoyal Library, Berlin. 



No example in the collection. 



P. Bos eaffer brachyeeros. 



Bubalus brachyeeros, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i, p. 587, 1837, List 

 Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 153, 1843, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 24, 

 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 10, 1872, Hand-List 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 81, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol. xii, p. 499, 1873, xiii, p. 258, 1874 ; Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1863, p. 157; Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, pp. 161, 

 174. 



Bos brachyeeros, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, 



p. 153, 1846. 

 Bubalus brachycerus, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 



p. 227, 1862. 



Bubalus pumilus, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 482, 1875, p. 455. 

 Bos caffer brachyeeros, Lydeklcer, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 



p. 112, 1898, Game Animals of Africa, p. 72, 1908, The Ox and 



Its Kindred, p. 243, 1912, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 240; 



Alexander, From the Niger to the Congo, vol. ii, p. 394, 1907 ; 



Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 424, 1910. 

 Syncerus brachyeeros, Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. xxiv, p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality Lake Chad district. 



The following tentative key (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 241) 

 to the named races of West African dwarf buffaloes in 



