SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



throughout porous, even cellular ; muzzle invariably broad, 

 naked, moist, black ; ears in general middle-sized ; body 

 long ; legs solid ; stature large. 



Sub-genus I. — Bubalus. Animals low in 'proportion to 

 their bulk ; limbs very solid ; head large ; forehead narrow, 

 very strong, convex ; chaffron straight ; muzzle square ; horns 

 lying flat or bending laterally with a certain direction to the 

 rear ; eyes large ; ears mostly funnel-shaped ; no hunch ; a 

 small dewlap ; female udder with four mammce ; tail long, 

 slender. 



889. 1. B. Caffer (the Cape Buffalo.) Adult male about 

 live feet six inches at the shoulder, nine feet from nose to 

 root of tail ; horns spreading horizontally on the head, in 

 contact at base, eight or ten inches broad, very ponderous, 

 dark coloured, and above five feet from tip to tip, the 

 internal nucleus very cellular, the points turned up; the 

 incisor teeth loose; ears wide, rather hanging; under-jaw 

 bearded; back straight; hide black, almost naked, and 

 the end of tail furnished with a few distichous bristles ; 

 in the young much black longish hair, pai-ticularly about 

 the ridge of the back. 



B. CafTer, Spairm. et Auctor. Cape Ox, Pt-w/. Qu'araho 

 of the Hottentots. Zamouse? in Bornou. 



Icon. Sparrman's Travels. Buff. Daniell. Nobis. 

 Habitat. The interior of Africa. 



890. 2. * B. Pegasus ? (the Pagasse.) A young male, 

 the horns lying across the summit of the head, the tips 

 turned up ; colour darkish, with obscure transverse ridges ; 

 head very short, thick, abrupt at the nose ; forehead wide ; 

 eyes large and full ; the neck with a dense mane ; ears 

 long, flaccid, pendulous; tail to below the houghs covered 

 with long woolly black hair ; general colour deep brown ; 

 feet white. 



