68 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



The following are the dimensions, in inches, of the horns 

 of bulls of Gambian and South Nigerian races, together with 

 those of the Alexander-Gosling skull from the Ubangui 

 referred to the Lake Chad race : 



Lake Chad. Gambian. S. Nigerian. 



No. No. Head described in 



4. 7. 9. 13. 7. 7. 8. 254. P. Z. S. 1913. 



Outside length 25 27* 20 



Palm breadth 6f 7 1\ 



Tip-to-tip interval Hi 21 12 



12. 11. 16. 1. Mounted head of female. Southern 

 Nigeria. Type; figured by the writer, loc. cit. The 

 following are the measurements of the horns in the larger 

 of the two type specimens of B. c. brachyceros and the 

 present specimen : 



Lake Chad. S. Nigerian. 



Outside length 17* 12 



Palm breadth 4 3| 



Tip-to-tip interval 7 9 



Presented ly Lieut. A. W. Hunt, E.N., 1912. 



98. 5. 24. 1. Mounted skin of immature female. Lokoja, 

 at the junction of the Benue Elver with the Niger. There 

 is no black mane on the neck. Purchased, 1898. 



98. 5. 24. 1, a. Skull, without lower jaw, of the preceding 

 specimen. Same history 



10. 6. 1. 46. Skin. Ganioning Valley, Oban, Southern 

 Nigeria. The general colour is rufous, with the lower part 

 of the legs blackish ; there is no black mane. 



Presented ly P. A. Tallot, Esq., 1910. 



S. Bos eaffer nanus. 



Bos nanus, Boddaert, Elenchus Anim. p. 152, 1785 ; Ward, Records 



of Big Game, p. 275, 1896. 

 Bos pumilus, Kerr, Anim. Kingdom, p. 340, 1792 ; Turton, Transl. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 121, 1806 ; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 



Paris, vol. xxxviii, p. 343, 1891, in part; Floioer and Ly dekker \ 



Study of Mammals, p. 361, 1891 ; Brehm, Tierleben, ed. 3, Sdugeth. 



vol. iii, p. 321, fig. 1891. 

 Bos brachyceros, Pel, Bijdr. tot DierJcunde, p. 33, 1854, nee Sunde- 



vail. 



Bos brachicheros, Du Chaillu, Explor. Equat. Africa, p. 210, 1861. 

 Bubalus reclinis, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 158; Gray, Cat. 



Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 12, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 82, 1873. 



