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separating the Shari horns from thierryi, and they are 

 referred provisionally to that race. 



Presented hy Dr. H. K. W. Kitmm, 1910. 



0.— Bos caffer mayi. 



Bubalus mayi, MatscMe Sitzher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, p. 172. 

 Bos oaffer mayi, Lydehher, Game Anhnals of Africa, p. 72, 1908. 

 Syncerus mayi, HoUister, Proc. Biol. Soo. Washington, vol. xxiv, 

 p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality Bengo, Loanda. 



In this race the horns, which are approximated at the 

 tips, have a decided upward direction recalling in some 

 degree those of the Philippine Bos mindorensis ; their tips 

 tapering gradually and slightly, and their length not exceed- 

 ing one-third of the total horn-length. Colour apparently 

 undescrilied. 



Type seemingly a drawing in the Eoyal Library, Berlin. 



No example in the collection. 



P.— Bos caffer braehyeeros. 



Bubalus braohyceros. Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i, p. 587, 1837, List 

 Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 153, 1843, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mas. p. 24, 

 1852, Cat. Buminaiits Brit. Mus. p. 10, 1872, Hand-List 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 81, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol. xii, p. 499, 1873, xiii, p. 258, 1874 ; Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1863, p. 157; Matschie, Sitzher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, pp. 161, 

 174. 



Bos braehyeeros, Sundevall, K. SvensTia Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, 

 p. 153, 1846. 



Bubalus brachycerus, Gerrard, Cat, Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 227, 1862. 



Bubalus pumilus, BrooTce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 482, 1875, p. 455. 



Bos eaffer braehyeeros, Lydehher, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 

 p. 112, 1898, Game Animals of Africa, p. 72, 1908, The Ox and 

 Its Kindred, p. 243, 1912, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 240; 

 Alexander, From the Niger to the Congo, vol. ii, p. 394, 1907; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 424, 1910. 



Synoerus braehyeeros, HoUister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. xxiv, p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality Lake Chad district. 



The following tentative key {Proc. Zool. Soc., 1913, p. 241) 

 to the named races of West African dwarf buffaloes in 



