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Show 1873.] SIR V. BROOKE ON AFRICAN BUFFALOES. 483 Ear-conches large and bordered with a dense pendent fringe of hair. Stature smaller than that of Bubalus cafer. Colour ruddy brown, inclining to rufous in females of the western race (a). a. Stirps occidentalis, S *•- 1555. Petit Bceuf d'Afrique, Belon, Observ. plus. Sing. Grece, As. &c. pp. 120, 119 and figure. 1686. Wild Bull, Grew, Rar. Roy. Soc. p. 26. 1771. Petit Bceuf d'Afrique, Penn. Syn. p. 8, fig. 9, no. 7. 1781. The Dwarf Penn. Quad. p. 30. no. 10, pl. 27. fig. 3. 1806. Bos pumilus, Turt. Trans. Syst. Nat. p. 121. $ :- 1837. Bubalus brachyceros, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. (n. ser.) p. 587. 1839. , Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1st ser.) p. 284 t. 13. 1843. , Gray, Spec. M a m m . Brit. Mus. p. 153. 1852. , Gray, Cat. M a m m . Brit. Mus. p. 24. 6 :- 1852. Bubalus caffer, juv., Gray, Cat. M a m m . Brit. Mus. p. 28, tab. 2. fig. 3. 1854. Bos brachyceros, Pel, Bijdr. tot d. Dierk. p. 33, plates. 1861. , D u Chaill. Expl. Eq. Afr. pp. 125, 175, 204, plates. 1863. Bubalus reclinis and B. planiceros, Blyth, P. Z. S. pp. 157, 158. figs. 3 & 4. ? :- 1863. Bubalus brachyceros, Blyth, P. Z. S. p. 157, figs. 1 & 2. 1872. , Gray. Cat. Rum. Brit. Mus. p. 10. 6 ••- 1872. Bubalus reclinis, Gray, Cat. Rum. Brit. Mus. p. 12. Hab. Central Africa, Sierra Leone, Gaboon. b. Stirps orientalis :- 1863. Bos brachyceros, Heugl. Antilop. u. Buff. p. 25, pl. 3. fig. 12. 1866. Bubalus caffer, var. cequinoctialis, Blyth, P. Z. S. p. 371, fig. 1 & la. 1872. Bubalus centralis, Gray. Cat. Rum. Brit. Mus. p. 11. Hab. cAbyssinia and Upper Nubia. The following is the list of male specimens examined, placed in the order in which their respective characters appear to me to glide into each other :- a. Type oi Bubalus pumilus. Mus. Brit. b. Specimen in m y own collection (figs. 1 & 2, p. 475). c. Specimen represented by Pel onhisfirst plate(l.s.c). Mus. Lugd.. d. That represented on Pel's second plate (l.s.c). Mus. Lugd. e. Skull and horns purchased by Mr. Blyth from Mr. Jamrach. Mus. Brit. 31* |
