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Bubalus mauritanicus, Og. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 139. 
Bubalis mauretanica, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 208 (1846) ; id. 
Hornschuh’s Transl. p. 83 (1848) ; Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1853) ; Lyd. 
Horns and Hoofs, p. 195 (1893). 
Boselaphus bubalis, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846) ; id. P. Z. S. 1850, 
p. 139; id. Knowsl. Men. p. 20, pl. xx. fig. 1 (young) (1850) ; Blyth, P. Z. 8. 
1869, p. 51, fig. 3 (horns). 
Alcelaphus bubalis, Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 123 (1852); Tristram, Great Sahara, 
p. 387 (1860) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 86 (Palestine) ; Brooke, P. Z.S. 1872, p. 648 ; 
Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 43 (1872) ; id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 114 (1873) ; Riitimeyer, 
Rind. Tert.-Epoch. p. 47 (1877) ; Schmidt, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 307 (length of life) ; 
Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 189 (1887) ; id. Cat. Mamm. 
Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 171 (1892); Lyd. Field, Ixxvii. p. 858 (1891). 
Alcelaphus bubale, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 243 (1862). 
Alcelaphus bubalinus, Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 335 (1891). 
Boselaphus caama (partim), Heugl. Ant. u. Biff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leopold. xxx. 
pt. 11.) p. 22, pl. 1. fig. 3 (horns) (1863). 
Acronotus lelwel, Heugl. Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 124 (1877). 
Vernacutar Names :—Begra el Ouach, Arabs of Algeria (Lataste) ; Bekker-el-wash, 
Arabs of Palestine (7ristram) ; Kargum of Saharan Tuaregs; Karia in Bagirmi 
(Nachtigal). “ Lelwel,’ “ Alaliiehl,”’ and some others of Schweinfurth’s names 
also probably belong here. 
Size small; height at withers only about 43 inches, and therefore markedly 
less than in the other species. Facial hairs reversed upwards for about two 
inches on the nose, then slanting downwards from a point on the forehead 
‘just below the horns, where there is a twisted whorl from which the hairs 
radiate in all directions. Colour uniform pale rufous or fawn, entirely with- 
out darker patches on forehead, chin, or limbs; there is, however, an ill-defined 
patch of greyish on each side of the muzzle above the nostrils ; lower part of 
rump not whitish. Tail black on the terminal tuft only, the rest like the back. 
Skull long, but the elongation less than in B. caama. Approximate dimen- 
sions :—basal length 13 inches, greatest breadth 4:8, muzzle to orbit 10*. 
* These three measurements, when obtainable, will be given of the skull of every species 
throughout the work. The “ basal length ” is taken from the front lower edge of the large hole 
at the back of the skull, the foramen magnum, to the front of the muzzle, in a straight line; the 
other two explain themselves. The fourth and fifth measurements are only given in this genus to 
show the development of the frontal elongation. 
