24 MAMMALIA. 



laries elongate, extending back and between the nasal and cheek 

 bones ; teats in a cross series, the outer one rather before the 

 others. 



Bubalus, H. Smith in Griff. A. K. v. 182 ; in Fischer, Syn. 681. 

 Bos (bubali), Sundevall, Pecora, 77- 

 Bubalus, sp., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 

 Syncerus, Hodgson, 1847. 



* Horns separate, not dilated at the base, directed backwards and 

 incurved at the tip. Bubalus, Hodgson. 



1. BUBALUS BRACHYCERUS. The ZAMOUSE. 



Forehead flat ; horns short, thick, depressed at the base ; ears 

 very large, strongly fringed on the edge, and with two diverging 

 longly fringed lines within ; fur short, close, brown. Male adult 

 with tuft of long hair on legs. 



Bos brachyceros, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, t. 589 ; Ann. Nat. 



Hist. ii. 284. t. 13, young female; List Mam. B.M. 153; Cat. 



Osteol. Sp. B. M. 54; Roulin, D'Orb. Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. 



(Bcwf) ii. 

 Bubalus brachycerus, Gray, Knowsley Menag. ; Turner, P. Z. S. 



1849. 



Bosbubalus, Children in Denham fy Clapperton's Trav. in Africa. 

 Zamouse, Denham and Clapperton's Trav. Cent. Africa. 

 Bos Gaffer, Ruppell, Abyssinia, spec, in Mus. Frankfort. 

 Bos Caifer junior ?, Sundevall, Pecora, 202. 

 Hob. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Abyssinia. 



Two heads of adult covered with the skin. Central Africa. 

 Presented by Capt. Clapperton, R.N. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Skeleton of female. Gambia. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



Mr. Blyth has noticed two species of Wild Ox found in North- 

 west Africa : 



1. Sherif al Wady (Bos Atlanticus, Blyth), from Mount Atlas. 

 One lived some months at Tangiers. 



2. Wadan? or Pecasse?, with a flowing nuchal mane; found 

 in large herds at Rabat and Salee, on the Barbary Coast. Ann. 

 N. H. ix. 62. This is no doubt the 



Bos Pegassus, H. Smith, Griff. A. K. iv. 386. t. v. 890 ; Fischer, 



Syn. Mam. 652 ; Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 288. 

 Pegassus, Plinii Hist. Nat. viii. 21. Wadan, Lyon's Travels. 



