. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . on other a time, not finding any blood on the trail, I came to the conclusionthat I must have passed my troop. I now returned to take up the spooragain, and presently sighted the buffaloes, all standing clustered peeping through the bush I found they were gathered round thebuffalo I had shot, which was lying dead. They very soon saw me andgalloped off. I let them go, not wanting more meat. On inspection, Ifound that I had shot a fat cow instead of a bull. The day after this hunt 118 Great and Small Gam
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . on other a time, not finding any blood on the trail, I came to the conclusionthat I must have passed my troop. I now returned to take up the spooragain, and presently sighted the buffaloes, all standing clustered peeping through the bush I found they were gathered round thebuffalo I had shot, which was lying dead. They very soon saw me andgalloped off. I let them go, not wanting more meat. On inspection, Ifound that I had shot a fat cow instead of a bull. The day after this hunt 118 Great and Small Game of Africa there was not a single buffalo within miles ; they had all trekked had only fired the one shot, but it had had the effect of clearing theveldt. I found this same peculiarity among the buffaloes in all the countryfrequented by native hunters. G. W. Penrice. The Abyssinian Buffalo (Bos differ aquimctialis) The Abyssinian race is by far the most closely connected among otherAfrican buffaloes with the true Bos differ typicus. It is in fact so nearly. Ahv-iniai. allied that it has been doubted whether it is more than a variety of themore southern form. The body-colour is dark brown, tinged here andthere with a ruddier shade. The horns are smaller, much more flattenedtowards the base, and have a thinner and less massive appearance thanthose of the Cape buffalo. This buffalo is found in Abyssinia, the southern portions of Somaliland,and parts of the Eastern Soudan up to the White Nile. In habits itresembles its southern congener, and is, when wounded, fierce, active, andrevengeful. In stature it averages about a foot less than the Cape Senegambian Buffalo n0 buffalo, a good specimen measuring about 4 feet at the shoulder. Thelargest known pair of horns —in the possession of Mr. E. Lort Phillips—measure 40 inches over the outer curve, have an inside width of37 inches, a spread from tip to tip of 32 inches, and extend to 1 if inchesin width of palm. These were p
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