ABYSSINIAN BUFFALO 



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tikuU and Hums of Abyssinian Buffalo. 



ABYSSINIAN BUFFALO (Bos caffer sequinoctialis). 



A smaller animal than the last (height at shoulder about 4 feet), 

 with the general colour blackish or tawny brown, tinged locally with 

 rufous, and tending to grayish on the legs. Horns smaller, much more 

 flattened at the bases, where they are more widely separated, and in 

 some, although not all, cases retreating less markedly behind the plane 

 of the eyes. The fact that in East African specimens of the Cape 

 buffalo the horns are usually less rugged than in more southern 

 examples, tends to confirm the view that the present animal should be 

 regarded as a variety rather than as a species. 

 Distribution. — From Abyssinia and southern Somaliland through the 



Egyptian Sudan for a considerable distance up the White Nile ; 



but the southern limits, if definable, not )-et determined. 



