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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



provisionally referred to this race. Shot during the 

 Alexander- Gosling expedition by Capt. Gosling on an island 

 in the Ubangui. Length of horns 25J inches, tip-to-tip 

 interval 10J inches, palm-width 6f inches. Alexander gave 

 the tip-to-tip interval at 11 f inches. The colour of the skin 



FIG. 18. SKULL AND HORNS OF FEMALE LAKE CHAD BUFFALO 



(Bos caffer brachyceros). 

 From Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats. 



of this bull was dull tawny, with black face, mane, ear-fringes 

 and legs ; one cow shot at the same time was similarly 

 coloured, but a second cow was a richer tawny, with the 

 forehead red. The Ubangui Eiver forms the division between 

 French and Belgian Congo. 



Presented ly Boyd Alexander, Esq., 1907. 



