1910.] THREE AFRICAN BUFFALOES. 993 



The horns of the Lake Chad B. c. hrachyceros are of a much 

 smaller and totally diflerent type ; while those of the Sene- 

 gambian B. c. planiceros, according to the specimen figured on 

 page 105 of my 'Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats,' have, even when 

 unworn, much shorter tips. 



Text-fig. 145. 



Frontlet and horns of bull of Bos coffer tMerryi. 

 From Dr. Kumni's specimen in the British Museum. 



The horns of Dr. Kumm's specimen have a length of 31| inches 

 along the outer curve, with a basal span of 8 inches, and a tip to 

 tip interval of 26| inches. 



2. Bos CAFFER siMPSONi, subsp. n. 



On page 156 of vol. cxv. of the ' Field' newspaper for 1910, I 

 gave a preliminary notice, accompanied by a figure, of certain 

 BuSiilo-heads obtained by Mr. M. W. Hilton-Simpson on the left 

 bank of the Kwilu River in the Belgian (not, as I first thought, 

 the French) Congo. This river, which takes its rise in Portuguese 

 territory, runs nearly due north, and discharges into the Kwango, 

 a tributary of the Kasai, which, in its turn, forms the most 

 important affluent of the Congo. Of these Bufialoes, which were 

 found in herds of considerable size, the heads of two bulls and 

 two females were brought home by Mr. Hilton-Simpson, and of 

 these one female has been presented to the British Museum. 



In the heavily fringed ears and the general form of the horns 

 these Bufialoes approximate to the well-knoAvn i-ed Congo Bufialo 

 {B. c. nanus) ; but the horn- measurements of the largest bull 



