1910.] 



THREE AFRICAN BUFFALOES. 



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That the Kwihi Buftalo is distinct from B. c. nanus, whose 

 habitat includes Nigeria, Ashanti, and Sierra Leone, seems to be 

 cleai'ly indicated by its darker colour and larger horns, tlie form 

 of whicli does not agree pi'ecisely with tliose of any example of the 

 latter that have come under my notice ; and I cannot identify it 

 with any of the other races at present. Accordingly, I propose 

 to regai'd it as representing a distinct race, under the name of 

 Bos coffer simpsoni; taking as the type the liead of a cow which 

 Mr. Hilton-Simpson has presented to the British Museum. 



Text-fiff. 147. 



Head of cow Bos coffer simpsoni. From Mr. Hilton-8imi5sou"s specimen. 



The Kwilu Buflalo evidently forms a connecting-link between 

 B. c. nanus and the short-horned blackish races of Bos caffer, as 

 exemplified by a pair mentioned by Dr. Graham Eenshaw in the 

 Society's ' Proceedings ' for 1904, p. 130, as being then living in the 

 Antwerp Zoological Gardens. Those animals appear to have had 

 horns of the same general type as those of the Kwilu race, but 

 their general body-colour was much darker, being described as 

 dark blackish brown ; the ears show similar heavy fringes. As 

 suggested by Dr. Eenshaw, these BufTaloes may have been the 

 Senegambian B. c. planiceros. 



