1873.] 



SIR V. BROOKE ON AFRICAN BUFFALOES. 



481 



Peters since the commencement of this paper, and requested him to 

 procure for me a drawing of the head of the male Buffalo as he now 

 appears. The result was the beautiful etchings (Plate XLII. figs. 1 

 & 2) which I have the pleasure of laying before you. It may be 

 seen by a comparison of this drawing with that of a very fine speci- 

 men of the horns of Bubalus caffer (fig. 4, p. 480) that, in their 

 flattened compressed character, and in their general position on the 

 head, the horns of the Buffaloes living at Berlin differ essentially 

 from that species, and that in these particulars they resemble 

 precisely a specimen in the British Museum (fig. 5), brought by 



Fie;. 5 



Head of Bubalus pumilus, $ (race b) ; specimen brought by Baker from 



Abyssinia. 



Sir Samuel Baker from North-eastern Africa. There can therefore, 

 I think, be no doubt of the propriety of referring the animals living 

 at Berlin, along with Sir Samuel's specimen, to the Bubalus caffer, 

 var. tequinoctialis of Blyth (P. Z. S. 1866, p. 371), especially as that 

 gentleman in his paper alludes to Sir Samuel's specimen under that 

 name. But further, when we compare the great shaggy ears of the 

 East-African specimens (depicted in Herr MetzePs drawings) with 

 these characters as exhibited in the Central- African specimens figured 

 by Blyth (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 158) and observe in the coloured drawing 

 of the female Bos pumilus from Sierra Leone (which is still preserved 

 in the Society's collection), in addition to the large hairy ears, the 

 same tawny tint which is shown, though more feebly, in the East- 

 African male, a strong suspicion arises that we have here to deal with 

 one widely distributed species. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1873, No. XXXI. 31 



