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Show 480 SIR V. BROOKE ON AFRICAN BUFFALOES. [May 20, presents further proof that the various specimens above referred to represent one and the same species. I now proceed to consider the question of the identity of this small hairy-eared Buffalo of Equatorial, Western, and Central Africa (which should be called Bubalus pumilus) with the smaller species of Buffalo observed by Riippell, Heuglin, and others in Eastern Africa. In the Zoological Gardens at Berlin I observed with very great interest two Buffaloes, male and female, which, although labelled Bubalus caffer, appeared to me to differ materially from that species. M y friend Professor Peters (whom I must here take opportunity to thank for the indefatigable kindness and hospitality I experienced from him during my stay at Berlin) upon my request ascertained from Dr. Bodinus that these animals had been sent home by the well-known collector Casanova from Upper Nubia. A careful drawing (which I now exhibit) taken for m e by Herr Metzel conveys a faithful idea of the appearance of these Buffaloes as seen by me nearly a year ago. But as the animals were then immature and growing fast, I feared that possibly, in tbe time which had intervened since I last saw them, characters might have appeared which I had not anticipated, and which would modify the opinion I had at that time formed. In order to guard against this, I wrote to Professor Head of Bubalus caffer $ . |