MAMMALIA. 25 



2. BUBALUS BUFFELUS. The BUFFALO. 



Forehead convex, rounded ; horns large, flattened at the base, 

 black, on the plane of the face, bent down and recurved at the 

 tip ; ears not quite half the length of the head, slightly ciliated ; 

 fur rough, irregular, bristly, often very far apart, on the face be- 

 fore the eyes two-rowed. 



Bos bubalus, Brisson, Reg. Anim. 81 ; Gmelin, S. N. i. 206 ; 



Schreb. Saugth. t. 300 A ; Bechst. Naturg. Deutsch. i. 298 ; 



Klein, Annot. Bovis Bubali, t. ; Cuvier, D. Sci. Nat. v. 25 ; 



Reg. Anim. i. 270 ; Desm. Nouv. Diet. H. N. iii. 531 ; Mamm. 

 k 494 ; Desmoul. Diet. Class. H. N. ii. 366 ; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 



495. 652; H. Smith, Griff. A. K. iv. 392. t. .v. 892; Sun- 



devall, Pecora, 203; Pallas, Zool. R. A. i. 247- 

 Bos bubalis, Linn. S. N. i. 99 ; Erxl. Syst. 238 ; Hodgson, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1834, 99. 

 Bos buffelus, Blumenb. Handb. 121. 

 Bubalus buffelus, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 152; Cat. Hodgson 



Coll. B. M. 25; Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 54 ; Turner, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1849 ; Bonap. Ind. Mamm. Eur. 36. 1845. 

 B. Bubalus Bubalus, H. Smith. 



Bubalus ferus Indicus, Hodgson, Icon. ined. in B. Mus.t. 139. 

 Bos kerabau, Milller, Nederl. Verhand. i. t. 41. 

 Buffelus, Aldrov. Bisulc. 365. fig. 366. 

 Buffle, Buffon, Hist. Nat. xi. 284. t. 25 ; Bailly, Ann. Sci. Nat. 



ii. 369. t. 16 ; F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. t. 

 Biiffel, Meyer, Thier. ii. t. 45. 

 Buffalo, Penn. Syn. 7 ; Shaw, Zool. ii. 401. t. 211. 

 Wild Buffalo, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. B. i. 348. 

 Arnee, Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 747- 

 Hob. South Europe; North Africa; India; and Indian Islands. 



Var. 1 . Body nearly naked. 



Naked Buffalo, Penn. Syn. Quad. i. 8. t. 2. f. 1. 



Bos bubalus minor, Fischer, Syn. 495. 



Hab. Java. 



A young specimen. Manilla. From the Gardens of the 

 Zoological Society. 



Var. 2. Horns very much elongated, nearly smooth, curved at 



the tips. 

 Sukotyro or Buffalo, Sloane, Phil. Trans. 26, 1727, n. 39?. p. 222. 



f. 2, 3 ; Pennant, Quad. 25. 



Arnee, Anderson, The Bee, 1792, xii. 105. fig. 267. t. . f. c. D. 

 Bos Arnee, Shaw, Zool. iv. 400. t. 210; Kerr, Anim. Kingd. 336. 



t. 295 ; Blumenb. Abbild. t. 63 ; Handb. 122 ; Cuvier, Diet. Sci. 



Nat. v. 27. 

 Bubalus Arna (var. Macrocerus et Spirocerus), Hodgson, J. A. 



