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SIR V. BROOKE ON AFRICAN BUFFALOES. [May 20, 



presents further proof that the various specimens above referred to 

 represent one and the same species. 



I now proceed to consider the question of the identity of this 

 small hairy-eared Buffalo of Equatorial, Western, and Central Africa 

 (which should be called Bubalus pumilus) with the smaller species 

 of Buffalo observed by Riippell, Heuglin, and others in Eastern 

 Africa. 



In the Zoological Gardens at Berlin I observed with very great 

 interest two Buffaloes, male and female, which, although labelled 

 Bubalus coffer, appeared to me to differ materially from that species. 

 My friend Professor Peters (whom I must here take opportunity to 

 thank for the indefatigable kindness and hospitality I experienced 

 from him during my stay at Berlin) upon my request ascertained 

 from Dr. Bodinus that these animals had been sent home by the 

 well-known collector Casanova from Upper Nubia. A careful 

 drawing (which I now exhibit) taken for me by Herr Metzel conveys a 

 faithful idea of the appearance of these Buffaloes as seen by me 

 nearly a year ago. But as the animals were then immature and 

 growing fast, I feared that possibly, in the time which had intervened 

 since I last saw them, characters might have appeared which I had 

 not anticipated, and which would modify the opinion I had at that 

 time formed. In order to guard against this, I wrote to Professor 



Head of Bubalus caffer $ . 



