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Bubalus pumilus, BrooTce, Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1873, p. 482, pi. liv, 1875, 

 p. 485, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xiii, p. 159, 1874 ; 

 Flower and Oarson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, 

 p. 230, 1884 ; Pechael-Loesche, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. vol. iii, p. 711, 

 pi. xxviii, figs. 3, 4, 1888 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. 

 ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 83, 1897. 



Bubalus pumilus oocidentalis, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 483. 



Bubalus brachyceros, Bocage, J. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. i, p. 25, 

 1890 ; Matschie, Sdugethiere Togogebietes, p. 19, 1893, nee 

 Gray. 



Bos oaffer nanus, LydeVker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 106, 

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

 Kindred, p. 237, 1912, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 240; Ward, 

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



Bubalus nanus, Matschie Sitzher. Ges. nat. Frennde, 1896, p. 164. 



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

 p. 192, 1911. 



Typical locality probably the Congo. 

 Both sexes rufous at all ages, apparently with a dark 

 dorsal stripe ; ears heavily fringed with orange hairs ; axis 



Fig. 20. — Frontlet and Hoens of Congo Buffalo (Bos caffer nanus). 

 From Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats. 



of points of horns forming a right angle with that of the 

 basal portion — which is much flattened — so that the tip-to- 

 tip interval is very small. Bodily size small. 



