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and the form of the skull, in which the forehead is much 

 more convex than in the typical race, and the profile of the 

 face consequently concave, while the muzzle (that portion in 

 front of the orbits) is relatively shorter, and the length of 

 the nasals is less than the interval between their upper 

 extremities and the vertex of the skull, whereas in the 

 typical race it is longer. In these cranial features the Assam 

 buffalo approximates to B. caffer. 



The range includes the Mishmi Hills as well as Upper 

 Assam. 



91. 8. 7. 215. Skull, with horns. Mishmi Hills. Co- 

 type, the other being a mounted head in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



Presented hy A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1891. 



D.— Bos bubalis hosei. 



Bos bubalis bosei, Lydehher, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 126, 

 1898. 



Typical locality Sarawak, Borneo. 



Intermediate in size and general appearance between 

 £. h. bubalis and B. mindorensis, with (in the type specimen) 

 a wliite gorget on the throat. Fore-legs from above knees to 

 hoofs and hind-legs from below hocks mainly dirty white ; 

 front of thighs also whitish. Horns relatively short. 



In North Borneo wild buffaloes are stated by Dr. C. Hose 

 to occur in the neighbourhood of the Miri and Baram Elvers. 



94. 6. 12. 8. Skin, mounted. Sarawak ; collected by 

 Dr. C. Hose. Type. Also skull of same. Purchased, 1894. 



The following name has been proposed, on the evidence 

 of a skull and horns, for a buffalo from IST. India : — 



Bubalus bubalus septentrionalis, Matschie, Deutsche Jdger-Zeitung, 

 vol. lix, p. 103, 1912. 



The undermentioned name has been applied to a buffalo 

 reputed to come from the island of Busuanga, in the 

 Calamianes group of the Philippines : — 



Bubalus moellendorffi, Nehring, Sitmher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1894, 

 p. 185. 



