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MR. E. BLYTH ON AFRICAN BUFFALOS. [June 26, 



been realized, of confirming the impression founded upon that single 

 specimen ; and I have now the pleasure of exhibiting two frontlets 

 of mature growth, which were procured in Equatorial Africa by Mr. 

 Petherick, and together with them two splendid heads of the southern 

 B. caffer for comparison. Of the latter I have seen a very consider- 

 able number of skulls and frontlets, of all ages and stages of deve- 

 lopment, but never one that resembled the specimens from Equa- 

 torial Africa now exhibited ; and the living animal at present in the 



Society's Menagerie is distinctly of the southern race as distinguish- 

 able from the other, as shown by the much greater elongation as 

 well as thickness of that terminal portion of its horns which consti- 

 tutes their upward curvature. The accompanying figures (I, la) of 

 the two frontlets from Equatorial Africa and that (fig. 2) of the superb 

 Cape specimen, one of the two exhibited before the Meeting, were 

 photographed at the same focus, and therefore present exactly the 

 relative size which the specimens bear towards each other ; and the 

 difference is so very considerable, not only as compared with the noble 

 example of B. caffer represented, but with all that I have ever seen 

 of the latter from South Africa, that I think the equatorial race 

 should at least be recognized as B. caffer, var. cequinoctialis, if not 

 more decidedly as Bubalus cequinoctialis. By Mr. S. W. Baker, who 

 possesses two fine skulls of the Equatorial Buffalo, I am informed 

 that the species is uot common on the banks of the White Nile, but 



