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back white ; hair of the back short (black at the base), of the sides 

 and whiskers elongate ; tail very long, thick. 



Sus penicillatus, Schinz, Monog. Saugth. 1848, fide Rev. Zool. 

 1848, 152.* 



Choiropofamus pictus, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1852. 



Painted Pig of the Camaroons, Illustrated News, 1852. 



Hab. W. Africa. River Camaroon. " Gold Coast, Mus. Basle," 

 fide Schinz. 



A fine male of this species has been living in the Gardens of the 

 Zoological Society since September 1852. 



6. On the Horns of thk Sanga, or Galla Oxen, of Gibba. 

 By J. E. Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



Dr. Gray brought before the Society a pair of homs of these 

 oxen, which the British Museum had lately purchased at the sale of 

 the property of the late Earl of Mountuorris, at Arley Hall. 



They are the pair mentioned by Mr. Salt in his ' Voyage to Abys- 

 sinia,' at p. 258, 4to edit. 1844, where he observes: 



" There (Gibba) for the first time I was gratified by the sight of 

 the Galla Oxen, or Sanga, celebrated throughout Abyssinia for the 

 remarkable size of their horns. Three of these animals were grazing 

 among the other cattle in perfect health, which circumstance, to- 

 gether with the testimony of the natives, ' that the size of the horn 

 is in no instance occasioned by disease,' completely refutes the fan- 

 ciful theory given by Mr. Bruce respecting this creature. 



" The Ras having subsequently made me a present of three of 

 these animals alive, I found them not only in excellent health, but 

 so exceedingly wild, that I was obliged to have them shot. 



" The horns of one of these are now deposited in the Museum of 

 the College of Surgeons, and a still larger pair are placed in the 

 Collection of Lord Valentia, at Arley Hall. The length of the 

 largest horn of this description which I met vrith was nearly four 

 feet, and its circumference at the base twenty-five inches. 



" I shall only further observe that its colour appears to vary as 

 much as in the other species of its genus ; and that the peculiarity in 

 the size of the horns was not confined to the male, the female being 

 very amply provided with this ornamental appendage on her fore- 

 head, pp. 258, 259. See also Bruce's 'Voyage,' App. 1. Letters 

 9 & 10." 



Dr. Gray observes that the horns are shorter, and more curved 

 and lyrated than the figure engraved in t. 19, at p. 259 of Salt's 

 • Travels in Abyssinia,' which also appears to make them bear a larger 

 proportion to the size of the animal than the specimen suggests ; and 

 they are quite as remarkable for their erect position on the forehead 

 as for their size. 



* I have seen the specimen in the Basle Museum, and it is certainly the spe- 

 cies here described, only differing a little in the depth of the colouring.— J. E. G. 



