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and was certaiiih' referable to llh. siunaframis. Mr. Bartlett possessed 

 a posterior horn of the same species, received with various Dyak 

 weapons, Src, from Borneo, where the species would exist together 

 with Rh. sondaicus (v. javanicus) ; and Mr. Blyth had been ap- 

 prised of a two-horned Rhinoceros having also been killed in Asam, 

 where it was considered a great rarity. He had elsewhere shown 

 (Journ.x\s.Soc. 1801, p. 151) that both Rh. sondaicus and Rh. suma- 

 traniis inhabit the Indo-Chinese region and Malayan peninsula, and 

 that, so far as he could learn, they were the only Rhinoceroses of that 

 great range of territory, as Rh. sondaicus (and not Rh. indicus) was 

 the only known species inhabiting the eastern Sundarbans of Bengal. 



Mr. Blyth next called the attention of the Meeting to a frontlet 

 with horns of a peculiar species of Buffalo, supposed to be from 

 Africa, but the origin of which was unknown. The specimen had 

 long been hung up in the Museum of King's College, where it bore 

 his MS. name planiceros, imposed nearly a quarter of a century ago. 

 This specimen he was permitted to exhibit through the kindness of 

 Professor Rymer Jones. A second and much younger example of 

 the same sjjecies had long been exhibited in the Museym of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, in the catalogue of which it had been 

 assigned to the Gayal (^Bos frontalis) of the Transbrahmaputran 

 regions*, to which species it was not even specifically allied — it being 

 unquestionably the frontlet of a veritable Buffalo, and of the African 

 type, as distinguished from the Asiatic, as exemplified by Bubalus 

 coffer and B. brachyceros. 



Another frontlet, indicative of an undescribed species of presu- 

 mably African Buffalo (indeed, stated to be from South Africa, which 

 must now be considered doubtful) had long been in the Collection 

 of the British Museum, where it is assigned in Dr. Gray's Catalogue 

 of the Mammalia in that collection to B. caffer, juv."f; but it has 

 the indisputable characters of maturity, and is very unlike the young 

 of B. caffer of either sex, with the developmicnt of the horns of 

 which species ]\Ir. Blyth was acquainted from personal observation 

 in the case of the living male. This second species he proposed to 

 designate B. reclinis. ~'~ 



The figures exhibited (see woodcuts, next page), drawn on a scale 

 of an inch to a foot (English measure), would impart a better idea 

 than any description of the horns of Bubalus brachyceros. Gray, B. 

 reclinis, and B. planiceros. 



The two heads of B. brachyceros have been drawn from a pair of 

 specimens in the National Collection, brought to England by the 

 celebrated traveller Capt. Clapperton, from Bornou ; the faces and 

 ears having been rectified from a living cow formerly in the Surrey 

 Zoological Gardens, upon which Dr. Gray had founded the species. 



* ' Catalogue of the Contents of the ^h^seunl of the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 London,' pt. 3. p. 156, No. 1079. " The frontlet and horns of the Gyall." 



t It is figured in the ' Catalogue of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Col- 

 lection of the British Museum' (1S52), pt. 3. Ungidata farcipeda, tab. 2, fig. 3. 

 " Pennant's specimen." Vide Grew, Rar. 26 ; Pennant's Syn. Br. iMus. Catal. 

 (1862), p. 227, Bulia'us caffer, " a. Frontal bone and horns ; young." 



