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Show 464 THE M A M M A L S OF T H E UGANDA BOUNDARY COMMISSION. [Apr. 19, Dimensions of the type, measured in skin : Head and body (c.) 400 m m . ; hind foot 50. Skull (stage V ) : greatest length 81 m m . ; basal length 75-5 ; zygomatic breadth 45 ; nasals 18x16-5; diastema 13-5 ; combined length of four premolars and two anterior molars 267 ; breadth of ml 5-1; length of anterior lower premolar 3-3. Hab. Rogoro, Kikuyu (Mile 346 of Uganda Railway), British East Africa. Type. Male. B. M. No. 0.1.3.5. Collected 24 June 1899 and presented by Mr. C. S. Betton. 20. BUBALUS CAFFER RADCLIFFEI Thos., Abstr. P Z S 1904 No. 4, p. 13, March 1; P. Z. S. 1904, vol. i. p. 371. Five skulls, three males and two females. Burumba, Ankole. Text-fig. 95. Skull and horn* of Bubalus caffer radcliffei. The description of this fine Buffalo has been already published (II cc.); we now give a figure of the typical skull*. P 21. EGOCERUS EQUINUS LANGHELDI Matsch. tf. 593; 594. Colour of iris walnut-brown (IV. G D ) This animal was described on the same day (Nov 15 1898^ bv Dr. Matschie m Berlin as Hippotragus langheklif, ai d by Dr O Neumann m London as H rufopalliclus %. Fortunately, Wever,' arrunXmiy^k! t^E^&SZ"?* ^ "f»? «**• Thev upon the shoulders and hauncheMMav 9 1904) *' M m b e r °f tlle ^-whorls t n ^ naturf- Fr- Berlin 1898, p. 181 X P. Z. S. 1898; p. 850. |