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meee ES l- AFRICAN BUBAL. 
BUBALIS MAJOR (Bryrn). 
Boselaphus bubalis, var. 1, Gray, P. Z.S. 1850, p. 139 (°?). 
Alcelaphus bubalis, var. tunisianus, Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 123 (1852) ; 
Rum. B. M. p. 44 (1872) (?). 
Boselaphus major, Blyth, P. Z.S. 1869, p. 52, fig. A 1 (horns). 
Alcelaphus major, Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 44 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 114 
(1873). 
“ Bubalis lelwel, Heug).,” Matsch. Arch. f. Nat. 1891, pt. 1. p. 8355 (Cameroons). 
Bubalis major, Ward, Horn Meas. p. 62 (1892) ; Matsch. Mitth. deutsch. Schutz- 
gebiet, vi. pt. ui. p. 17 (1893) (Togo) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 196 (1893). 
id. Cat. 
Essential characters as in B. buselaphus, but larger in all its dimensions. 
“ Body of a uniform greyish brown; face deep brown; fore legs streaked 
with dark brown or blackish from the knees downwards. ‘Terminal tuft of 
tail black. 
“Frontal bone between the base of the horns and orbit convex, the same 
part being remarkably flat in other species.” (Brooke, MS.) 
Facial length 174 inches, muzzle to orbit 13, breadth of forehead 4:4. 
Horns curved as in the Bubal, but longer and heavier, their length round 
the curves amounting to over 20 inches. 
Hab. Gambia, Lower Niger district, and interior of Cameroons. 
There can be no doubt of the existence of a Bubal allied to b. buselaphus 
in several districts on the West Coast of Africa. But there are no perfect 
specimens of this Antelope at present available for comparison, and its 
distinctness from its northern representative may still be a matter of some 
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