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I did not see any quite young calves. The smallest were about half grown 

 and had already the colour of the adult. 



On the northern side of Guaso Nyiri the Buffaloes had their well beaten tracks 

 along which they went to the water, but they did not appear to use the same every 

 night. Their pasture-lands were mostly situated at some distance from the river. 

 The herd out of which I shot the bull was found about 6 — 7 kilometres from the 

 river, and at another opportunity I saw a couple of bulls at a still greater distance 

 from the water. During the hottest hours they usually stand resting under some 

 acacia or a big thornbush, but I have also seen them wandering about and grazing 

 about 1 o'clock at noon. They feed on the coarse grass which grows here and there 

 in the thornbush. When they rest they hold the forehead almost horizontal and 

 the large fringed ears droop below the bases of the horns. 



Fig. 5 b. Buffelua caffer raddcUffei 9. 



When badly wounded they give went to a grunting bellow^ and even since 

 they have fallen and lie dying they continue with short intervals to utter a kind of 

 moaning bellows at one time melancholic and wild. Their tenacity of life is well 

 known. I shot my specimens with a soft nose 9,? mm. Mauser buUpt, the cow had 

 received two bullets through her chest so that she bled freely on both sides but stag- 

 gered any way against me ready to charge when she dropped for the third in the 

 brain. The bu]l got the upper end of the left humerus smashed and the bullet con- 

 tinued into his heart, but he tried to gallop away when a bullet from behind dropped 

 him. Thfe cows of the herd collected then around him evidently bent on a charge 

 but were turned off by some quickly repeated shot from a shot gun. 



The Buffaloes, especially the cow, were infested with numerous ticks of the 

 species Amblyomma hebrceum Koch^ which although widely distributed in East Africa 

 has not been found on this host before. 



^ Some natives told me that it was a sure sign that the Buffalo was severely wounded if he grunted 

 ,that way. If he was silent after the shot, it was »no good* they said., 



^ Conf. L. G. Neumann: Ark. f. Zoologi. Stockholm. Bd. 7, n:o 24. 



