EXISTING KINDS OF WILD CATTLE 241 
As remarked in the original description, the Kwilu 
buffalo evidently forms a connecting-link between 
B. c. nanus and the short-horned blackish races of 
Bos caffer, as exemplified by a pair mentioned by Dr. 
Graham Renshaw in the Zoological Society's Proceed- 
ings for 1904, p. 130, as being then living in the 
Antwerp Zoological Gardens. Those animals appear 
to have had horns of the same general type as those 
of the Kwilu race, but their general body-colour was 
much darker, being described as dark blackish brown ; 
the ears show similar heavy fringes. As suggested 
by Dr. Renshaw, these buffaloes may have been the 
Senegambian B. c, planiceros. 
Certain buffaloes killed in 1910 by Mr. Russell 
Roberts in Senegambia are much larger than any of 
the named races from the more southern districts of 
the west coast, and have horns of a more spreading 
type than the red dwarf buffalo, although exhibiting 
a similar wide separation of the bases on the forehead. 
They occur in large herds, and old bulls have a horn- 
spread of 30 inches. In the cows and young bulls the 
colour of the hair is reddish dun-brown, but in the 
bulls it gradually darkens until it finally becomes 
black all over with the exception of the ears, some 
spots near the eyes, and the whole of the under-parts, 
from the chin to the tail, which are light red. One of 
the bulls was in an intermediate stage of colouring, 
showing a considerable amount of brown on the face. 
These Senegambian buffaloes belong, apparently, 
to a race previously known only by the horns, 
B. c. planiceros. They form a closer connection be- 
tween the dwarf red buffalo and the brownish black 
buffaloes of eastern central Africa. 
Another type of the short-horned group is repre- 
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