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twelve feet high at the shoulder, and eighteen at the crown of the 

 head. Legs slender, seven feet in length. Feet terminating in a 

 divided hoof. No succentorial hoofs. Body short. Withers 

 elevated, a scanty, upright, rufous mane extending along the whole 

 neck. Back oblique. Tail thirty-four inches long, terminating in 

 a tuit of bristly black hair about the same length, which reaches 

 to the hocks. Head light and tapering, thirty-four inches long ; 

 provided with osseous peduncles (common to both sexes) covered 

 with a hairy skin, and terminating in a tuft of black hair. A 

 tuberculum on the chaffron. No muzzle, upper lip entire, hairy 

 and pointed. Eyes large and melting. No laclu-ymary sinus. 

 Ears pure white, and ample. Callosities on the breast and knee. 

 Tongue very long, pointed, and flexible. General colour deep 

 sienna, with large angular ferruginous spots, variously disposed over 

 the whole; each spot darker in the centre. Belly and cheeks 

 white, with dark blotches. 



Female sixteen or seventeen feet in height at the crown, of a 

 dirty white colour, with pale ferruginous spots as in the male. 

 Mammse four. 



Gregarious in small troops. Inhabits the great plains of the 

 interior. 



Genus. Bos. 



]7. Bubalus Coffer. The African Buffalo. Bn^el of the Cape 

 Colonists. 'Neaat and Bokolokolo of the MatabilL Naari of the 

 Bcchuana. 



Adult male about five feet six or eight inches high at the shoulder, 

 and upwards of twelve feet in extreme length. Structure extremely 

 powerful. Body ponderous. Neck short. Breast and shoulder 

 deep, and slightly dcAvlapped. Back straight and hunchless. 

 Limbs short and solid, terminating in a divided hoof, which is 

 nearly circular. Succentorial hoofs very long. Tail three feet 

 long, terminating in a tuft of coarse black hair, which reaches below 

 the hocks. Head short, and small in proportion to the animal's 

 bulk. Eyes small and sinister, overshadowed by rough and pon- 

 derous dark coloured horns, nearly in contact at the base, spreading 



