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The following are the dimensions, in inches, of the horns 

 of bulls of Gambian and South Nigerian races, together with 

 those of the Alexander-Gosling skull from the Ubangui 

 referred to the Lake Chad race : — 



Lake Chad. Gambian. S. Nigerian. 



No. No. Head described in 



4. 7. 9. 13. 7. 7. 8. 264. P. Z. S. 1913. 



Outside length 25J 27i 20i 



Palm breadth 6i 7i 7J 



Tip-to-tip interval Hi 21 ^ 12 



12. 11. 16. 1. Mounted head of female. Southern 

 ISIigeria. Type; figured by the writer, loc. cit. The 

 following are the measurements of the horns in the larger 

 of the two type specimens of B. c. brachyceros and the 

 present specimen : — 



Lake Chad. S. Nigerian. 



Outside length 17i 12 



Palm breadth 4 3i 



Tip-to-tip interval 7 9i 



Presented hj Lieut. A. W. Hunt, B.N., 1912. 



98. 5. 24. 1. Mounted skin of immature female. Lokoja, 

 at the junction of the Benue Eiver with the Niger. There 

 is no black mane on the neck. Piirchased, 1898. 



98. 5. 24. 1, a. Skull, without lower jaw, of the preceding 

 specimen. feme history 



10. 6. 1. 46. Skin. Gamoning Valley, Oban, Southern 

 Nigeria. The general colour is rufous, with the lower part 

 of the legs blackish ; there is no black mane. 



Presented hy P. A. Talbot, Esq., 1910. 



S.— Bos eaffer nanus. 



Bos nanus, Boddaert, Elenchus Anim. p. 152, 1785 ; Ward, Records 



of Big Qmne, p. 275, 1896. 

 Bos pumilus, Kerr, Anim. Kingdom, p. 340, 1792 ; Turton, Transl. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 121, 1806 ; Euet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 



Paris, vol. xxxviii, p. 343, 1891, in part ; Flower and LydeJcker, 



Study ofMammaU, p. 361, 1891 ; Brehm, Tierleben, ed. 3, Sdugeth. 



vol. iii, p. 321, fig. 1891. 

 Bos brachyceros, Pel, Bijdr. tot Dierhunde, p. 33, 1854, nee Sunde- 



vall. 

 Bos braohieheros, Dii Chaillu, Explor. Equal. Africa, p. 210, 1861. 

 Bubalus reclinis, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 158; Oray, Cat. 



Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 12, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 82, 1873. 



