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74. 11. 2. 5. Mounted skin. Setit Valley, Bogosland, 

 Abyssinia. Length of horns 21|- inches, maximum span 

 28f inches. Purchased, 1874. 



74. 11. 2. 3. Skeleton, with horns, mounted. Same 

 locality. Horn-length 28^, maximum span 31 inches. 



Same history. 



74. 11. 2. 4. Skeleton, with horns, female ; skull 

 exhibited in gallery. Same locality. Same history. 



1. 8. 8. 47. Mounted head. Eastern Sudan. 



Presented hy R. McD. Hawker, Esq., 1901. 



The following specimen appears to indicate a buffalo 

 intermediate in some respects between B. e. mquinoctialis 

 and B. c. mathewsi. The horns are noticeable for the great 

 width of their basal portion and the shortness of the tips. 

 The hair is black. 



13. 1. 13. 1. Skull, with horns, and scalp. Wandi 

 (Wando), Lado Encla-\'e. Length of horns along outer cur^-e 

 27^ inches, palm-breadth 9J inches, tip-to-tip 27f inches. 



Presented hy G. W. Grabham, Esq., 1913. 



L.— Bos eaffer mathewsi. 



Bos eaffer mathewsi, LydeTcTcer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. ii, p. 163, 



Game Animals of Africa, p. 72, 1908. 

 Bubalus mathewsi, Matschie, Sitzher. Oes. nat. Freunde, 1906, 



p. 174. 

 Syncerus eaffer mathewsi, HoUister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. xxiv, p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality Mfumbiro or Ufumbiro district, Euanda, 

 north-east of Lake Kivu, between Tanganyika and the 

 Albert-Edward Nyanza. 



Horns smaller than in the last, and with little backward 

 inclination of the central portion; tips inclining backwards 

 and inwards, and their long axis forming an angle of about 

 35° with that of the basal portion. General colour blackish, 

 with a white tail-tip. 



4. 5. 19. 1. Skull, with horns. Mfumbiro district, 

 Euanda, north-east of Lake Kivu. Type (fig. 17). 



Presented hy A. Matheius, Esq., 1904. 



