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visionally referred to tliis race (see Proc. Zool. Sec, 1913, 

 p. 236). Interior of French Congo ; shot by Prince Paul 

 Demidoff. The general colour is foxy red, with dark brown 

 shanks, and a jet black mane, and a few black hairs at the 

 tail. The head indicates a bigger animal than the cow of 

 B. c. hunti, and the black mane distinguishes the specimen 

 from all the other red buffaloes in the collection. 



Presented by Prince E. Demidoff, 1909. 



N.— Bos caffep thierryi. 



Bubalus thierryi, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, p. 172. 

 Bos caffer thierryi, LydeTcker, Game Animals of Africa, p. 72, 1908, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 992. 

 Syncerus thierryi, Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xxiv, 



p. 193, 1911. 



Typical locality Togoland, W. Africa ; also recorded from 

 Upper Shari Valley, French Congo. 



Long axes of smooth tips and rough basal portion of 

 horns forming about a right angle with one another; the 

 long tips tapering rapidly, and having approximately the 

 same direction as the free basal edges of the horns ; their 

 summits separated by an interval exceeding one-third the 

 maximum span. 



Type apparently in Berlin. 



10. 5. 16. 1. Frontlet and horns. Upper Shari Valley. 

 In the fact that they are situated throughout their length 

 almost in one plane, coupled with the great length of the 

 slender, cylindrical tips, which exceeds that of the basal 

 portion, and the right angle formed by the junction of these 

 two portions with one another, the horns accord with the 

 pair from the interior of Togoland, described and figured by 

 Dr. Matschie under the name of Bitbalus thierryi. The 

 Shari horns are, however, deeper in the antero-posterior 

 direction at their bases, where they are more expanded and 

 flattened, and also more closely approximated in the middle 

 line than in the type of thierryi. The latter, is, however, a 

 female, and this being so, there seems no reason why the 

 Shari horns should not pertain to the same race. Accordingly, 

 despite the long interval between the localities where the 

 two specimens were obtained, there seems no possibility of 



