102 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



B 1 . Bubalis lelwel modestus. 



Bubalis lelwel modestus, Schwarz, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, 

 vol. xiii, p. 32, 1914. 



locality Babr Kita, upper Shari district. 

 Type in Senckenberg Museum, Franfurt-am-Main. 

 pearly .plated to B. I. tschadcnsis, but smaller and 

 darker, with the short basal portion of the horns less nearly 

 vertical, and the angle formed by this and the middle 

 portion smaller ; general colour dull reddish brown, darker 

 on loins, paler on fore-quarters and flanks, and passing into 

 ochery buff on under-parts. Stated to be in some degree 

 intermediate between the Lake Chad and Eastern Sudan 

 races, although less rufous and with more nearly vertical 

 horn-bases than either of the latter. 

 No specimen in collection. 



C 1 . Bubalis lelwel kenise. 



Bubalis lelwel kenise, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, no. 17, 

 p. 3, 1913. 



Typical locality northern Kenia Plateau, British East 

 Africa. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Closely allied to B. I. jacksoni, but with more divergent 

 horns and shorter horn-pedicle; general colour cinnamon- 

 rufous, becoming lighter on flanks and under-parts. Dis- 

 tinguished from the B. cokei group by V-shaped horns, larger 

 size, and longer head. Represents the extreme western 

 extension of B. lelwel. 



No specimen in the collection can be definitely referred 

 to this form. 



VI A . BUBALIS LUZARCHEI. 



Bubalis luzarchei, Grandidicr, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1914, p. 316. 



Typical locality upper Gambia. 

 Type in the Paris Museum. 



Characterised by the excessive elongation of the face 

 (inclusive of the horn-pedicle, with U-shaped horns, which 



