. The game animals of Africa . swell as a head from Nuanetsi depicted by Mr. J. G. Millais in A BreatJifrom the Veldt, belong to this or a closely allied race. The horns of the Ankoli buffalo {B. c. raddiffei), from south-westUganda, differ by the extreme flatness of their basal portions, whichdo not form a prominent boss. With the Orange river race {B. c. gariepensis), from the district AFRICAN B UFFAL O 71 about the upper course of the Orange or Gariep river, we come to asecond subgroup, in which the horns, in place of curving immediatelyinwards at the point of maximum span, curve at first b
. The game animals of Africa . swell as a head from Nuanetsi depicted by Mr. J. G. Millais in A BreatJifrom the Veldt, belong to this or a closely allied race. The horns of the Ankoli buffalo {B. c. raddiffei), from south-westUganda, differ by the extreme flatness of their basal portions, whichdo not form a prominent boss. With the Orange river race {B. c. gariepensis), from the district AFRICAN B UFFAL O 71 about the upper course of the Orange or Gariep river, we come to asecond subgroup, in which the horns, in place of curving immediatelyinwards at the point of maximum span, curve at first backwards ; thisparticular race being distinguished from the allied forms by the lengthof the smooth tips of the horns, which exceeds the entire horn-length,and likewise by the marked thickening of the basal portion of thehorns. Shorter tips, not exceeding one-third the total length, distinguishthe horns of the Ruaha race {^B. c. ruahensis) of German East Africa,in which the bases are as much thickened as in the preceding Fig. 24.—African Biiftalo (Ankoli race), from a specimen killed liyMr. F. A. Knowles in Uganda. On the other hand, the Uganda buffalo {B. c. newnanni), typicallyfrom Changwe, has the bases of the horns flattened, and the short tipsdiminishing rapidly in diameter, and directed mainly upwards, with avery slight inward and backward direction, the greatest span beingdirectly below the tips. This buffalo is said to be very like the Sudanrace, from which it differs by the distinct backward sweep of the basalportion of the horns. The last member of this group is the Cape buffalo {B. c. typicus), ofwhich the type locality is the valley of the Sunday river, not far fromAlgoa Bay, In this race the horns do not show a prominent basalboss, and their smooth tips diminish very rapidly in calibre, and are 72 CATTLE distinctly bent inwards and backwards, the widest span occurringwhere the central axis of the tips cut the horn. This race apparentlyranges up the east co
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