Sir V. Brooke o}i the Dwarf Buf ah of Pennant. 159 



The anterior barbs are much smaller and much closer 

 together than the posterior. The upper half of the body 

 shows two or three irregular longitudinal bands. 



I may add here that Mr. Swinhoe has quite recently obtained 

 at Shanghai specimens of Carchanas lamia (Risso), a species 

 hitherto believed to be limited to the Atlantic, and of a 

 sturgeon which appears to be the 



Acipenser Dabryanus. 

 Acipemer Dab7-yanus,T)\xmQX\\, Nouv. Arch. Mus. iv. p. 98, pi. 22. fig. 1. 



One specimen, 31 inches long. The numbers of shields 

 differ a little from those given by Dumdril. Dorsal 12 ; 

 lateral 34 or 37 ; ventral 11 ; D. 51. 



XXIV. — On the Dwarf Buffalo of Pennant. 

 By Sir Victor Beooke, Bart.', F.Z.S. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



With reference to Dr. Gray's remarks upon my paper on 

 "African Buffaloes " in the December number of your Journal 

 (p. 499), I would merely ask any person interested in the 

 matter to turn to Pennant's 'Synopsis of Quadrupeds ' and to 

 judge for himself as to the correctness of Dr. Gray's state- 

 ments. Pennant, in his description of the "Dwarf" (p. 9), 

 thus writes, "2%e horns of this animal are in the Museum of 

 the Royal Society^ described hy Grew^ page 26," and upon 

 plate 8. figure 3 he figures these horns. 



Turton, having founded the name Bos pumilus upon Pen- 

 nant's " Dwarf," it follows that the horns spoken of and figured 

 by Pennant are typical specimensof "^os p?/v>«7^^s-." 



In the British Museum are a pair of horns, entered in the 

 ' Hand-list of Edentate, Thick-skinned, and Ruminant ]\Iam- 

 mals' (1873, p. 82) as received from the Museum of the Royal 

 Society y which exactly agree with Pennant's description and 

 figure. There can therefore, I think, be no reasonable doubt 

 that they are the identical specimens figured and described by 

 Pennant. 



The.se horns are likewise the ty|)e of Blyth's Bulxdus 

 reclinis. 



