THTi; SELOrS COLLECTTOJf. 13 



Order UNGULATA. 



Family BOVID^. 

 Subfamily BOVINE. 



SOUTH AFRICAN BUFFALO. 



STNCEEtlS CAFrEE CAPFEE. 



Bos caffer, Spamnan, K, Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. vol. xl. p. 79, 1779. 

 Bos (Buhalus) caffer, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 



p. 384, T. p. 371, 1827. 

 Bos caffer typicus, Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 97, 1898. 

 Syiicerus caffer caffer, HoUister, Proo, Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxiv. 



p. 192, 1911. 



Size large ; horns bent sharply backwards a short distance from 

 base. General colour blackish, occasionally reddish brown. 



Of the three bulls in the Collection, No. 19. 7. 15. 39 has 

 the largest horns : — greatest width outside 44| ; inside width 

 39 ; depth of palm over curve 13j ; spread from tip to tip 29. 

 The horns of the cow, which is a brownish red-coloured specimen, 

 are considerably more slender : — greatest width outside 39 ; inside 

 width 85^ ; depth of palm 7; spread from tip to tip 26|. 



Typical locality, Sunday Eiver, near Algoa Bay, South Africa, 

 the. range, extending into Northern Natal and Rhodesia. Two 

 other forms of South African Buffalo have been described*, garie- 

 pensis from the Orange River Colony, and limpopoensis from 

 Swaziland; the' horn characters that have been used to distinguish 

 these so-caUed species are, however, so very unsatisfactory that it 

 seems best to ignore these two names, and consider the following 

 specimens as representing the typical race, which may be called 

 the South African Buffalo. 



* Matsohie, Sitzher, Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, pp. 166 & 167. 



