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** Horns much enlarged and close together at the base, spreading out on side of the head and recurved at the tip. 
The Cape Buffalo. Bubalus Caffer. 
Forehead broad ; horns roundish at the end, depressed and very rugose, near the base becoming 
dilated and at length very broad, and close together on the forehead ; ears very large, half as long 
as the head, broad, acute, ciliated ; fur of face everywhere diverging (not two-rowed) ; skin bluish 
purple-black, nearly naked, with some longer hairs on the spine. 
Bos Caffer, Sparm. K. S. Veten. Akad. 1779, t. 3.— Griffith, A. K. t. .—Harris, W. A. A. t. 13, and head. 
—Gape Ox, Penn.— Cape Buffalo, Knight, M. A. N. f. Dwarf Ox, Penn. Syn. i. 9. n. 7. t. 2. f. 3, 
young, horns. 
Inhabits Africa ; in the Desert. Cape of Good Hope. Zoological Gardens. 
The horns of the young specimen are depressed and rugose, and very different from those of B. Bra- 
chycerus, which Prof. Sundeval considers as the young of this species. The pair of young horns which 
was in the museum of the Royal Society (Grew, Rar. 26), figured by Pennant (Syn. t. 2. f. 3), is now in the 
British Museum, and at once shows the distinctness of these two species. 
3. ANOA {Loten, H. Smit/i). 
Horns subtrigonal, round at the tip, depressed at the base and slightly keeled on the inner edge, straight, 
nearly on the plane of the face on the hinder edge of the frontal ; the intermaxillaries elongate, high 
up between the maxillaries and the nasals ; muffle narrowed below. 
The Anoa. Anoa depressicornis. Tab. XXX. 
Brownish red ; spots on cheek white. 
Anoa, Loten MSS.— Penn. Syn. 6.— Knight, M. A. N. f. 7A&.—Bos Buhalis fi. Anoa, Meyer, Zool. Arch. 1796, 
184. — Antilope depressicornis, Leach. — H. Smith, G. A. K. t. 181. f. 4, horns. — Anoa compressicornis. Leach. 
— Ant. platyceros and A. Celebica, Temm. — Anoa depressicornis, H. Smith. — Gray, Spic. Zool. t. 4. f. 2, 3. — 
Ann. Sci. Nat. iv. t. . 
Inhabits Celebes. Mus. Knowsley. Male and Heads, Brit. Mus. Paris and Frankfort. 
This animal was first noticed by Governor Loten ; it was afterwards described by Colonel Hamilton 
Smith, from a head with horns in the, Museum of the College of Surgeons. A similar head was received 
by General Hardwicke (which was given by him to the British Museum), accompanied by a sketch of the 
head and front part of the body of the animal, which is copied in my ' Spicilegia.' MM. Quoy and Gai- 
mard afterwards published a figure of the animal, and took two male specimens with them to Paris, one of 
which is here figured, as it was sent to the Earl of Derby in exchange for some animals which he had sent 
to them. 
Lord Derby thus writes in his Notes respecting it : — 
" I have arranged our exchange for the Anoa and BurcheWs Zebra. I propose to send them for the 
first an Eland adult, and for the latter a pair of Alpaca. I have also ventured to ask if I might borrow 
their male Sing-Sing to cross with my two females, giving them a share of the produce of course." — 
Nov. 6, 1845. 
" I like the Anoa much as a curiosity, but it is certainly horrid ugly, though I will make Hawkins draw 
it, as I know no figure from the life." — Jan. 3, 1846. 
" Hawkins has drawn the Anoa, and I think with success, except that the hair below the throat and 
neck seems to me to be too long, and to give the idea of a sort of mane. J. Thompson thinks the neck 
has been made too thick ; but that can hardly be, as the animal is of a very heavy make there as well as 
elsewhere. 
" You will be sorry to hear that we have lost the Anoa from Paris. It was ill for a short time, owing, 
we suspect, to the changes of the weather, and died at last of general inflammation. It has been ordered 
up to my own museum ; and I regret it, not on account of its beauty, but its rarity, and the source it came 
from to me."— Feb. 15, 1846. 
The Gayals have the intermaxillaries short, triangular, not reaching to the edge of the nasal bone ; the 
upper lip is bald, callous and moist, only as wide as the inner edge of the nostrils. 
