uncertainty, although we have good reason to believe that the two species 
will ultimately prove to be specifically different. 
The well-known naturalist Edward Blyth, for many years Curator of the 
Indian Museum, Calcutta, and a good authority on the larger Mammals, was 
the first writer to call attention to the existence of this Antelope. Ina 
communication made to the Zoological Society in 1869, Blyth states that he 
had examined a “ perfect skin” of what he at once recognized as a “ distinct 
though closely allied species,” differing from B. buselaphus “in being fully 
Fig. la. Fig. 18. 
Horns of Bubalis major. 
(Gambia, Carter, 1891.) 
as large as a Hartebeest, and in having black markings in front of all four 
feet above the hoofs.” Blyth’s opinion was that some mounted specimens 
which he saw in the Museums of Leyden and Amsterdam referred to B. buse- 
laphus belonged strictly to this new form. He also exhibited on the same 
occasion a pair of frontlets belonging to Ward, of Vere Street, as referable to 
what he proposed to designate Boselaphus major. These frontlets, which 
were subsequently figured in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings,’ are now in the 
British Museum. 
Whether the “ variety 1” of the Bubal, established by Gray in 1850 upon 
