Senegambian Buffalo n 



buffalo, a good specimen measuring about 4 feet at the shoulder. The 

 largest known pair of horns — in the possession of Mr. E. Lort Phillips 

 —measure 40 inches over the outer curve, have an inside width of 

 37 inches, a spread from tip to tip of 32 inches, and extend to 1 if inches 

 in width of palm. These were procured from Abyssinia. 



H. A. Bryden. 



The Senegambian Buffalo (Bos coffer planiceros) 



Naturalists, despite the differences in size, coloration, and shape of 

 horns, trace a distinct affinity between the great buffalo of South, East, and 



Central Africa (Bos coffer typicus), and the buffaloes of Abyssinia, Senegambia, 

 Lake Tchad, and the Congo. The buffalo of Senegambia stands midway 

 between the dark Cape buffalo and the small reddish buffalo of the Congo. 

 It is of a dark brown colour ; the horns are short, blunt, and fairly thick 

 in the old males, recurved, and somewhat laterally expanded. From this 

 last characteristic this buffalo has been christened by scientists B. coffer 

 planiceros. Little is known of this, as of other animals of the Gambia 



