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11. 6. 10. 115. Skull, with horns, and skin. Upper 

 Gambia. Same history. 



46. 10. 16. 1. Skeleton, female. Gambia; collected by 

 Whitfield. Skull exhibited. 



Presented "by the Earl of Derby, 1846. 



R. Bos eaffer hunti. 



Bos (Bubalus) eaffer hunti, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 240. 



Typical locality Southern Nigeria. 



Size smaller than in preceding race, with which this agrees 

 in general colour, but with no orange-tawny band on throat 



FIG. 19. HEAD OP S. NIGERIAN BUFFALO (Bos eaffer hunti). 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913. 



of cows, and that in bulls narrower. Male horns differ from 

 those of planiceros by the front surface sloping regularly 

 backwards nearly in one plane, instead of curving at first 

 backwards, then forwards, and finally backwards. Some old 

 retain the immature red colour. 



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