THE AFRICAN BUFFALO. 
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Major Smith has placed next in order, an animal 
of which we have at present no distinct account. It 
appears pretty certain that there exists in central and 
unexplored Africa, a rather large Bovine animal, for 
we have indications of it by various travellers, which 
do not agree with any of the known species. Major 
Smith met with a drawing in the collection of Prince 
John Maurice of Nassau, which bears some appear- 
ance of being drawn from this animal. The ile- 
scription of the drawing, a young male, is as follows ; 
but that is all we yet know regarding an animal 
which may prove of considerable interest. “ A 
young male, the horns lying across the summit of 
the head ; the tips turned up ; colour darkish, with 
obscure transverse ridges ; head very short, thick, 
abrupt at the nose ; forehead wide ; eyes large and 
full ; neck with a dense mane ; ears long, flaccid, 
pendulous ; tail to below the houghs covered with 
long woolly .black hair; general colour deep brown, 
feet white. Inhabits Congo, Angola, and central 
Africa. . 
The late Caffre wars have increased the scarcity 
of all large game ; and letters from the outposts of 
the new territory describe the country as totally for- 
saken, the herds of large animals being driven off to 
seek quiet and retirement. 
Another animal, which is yet little known, stands 
in our systems under the title of Bos pegasus. The 
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