. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . t can be definitely assigned to nanus ; while thelarge pits in the forehead of the skull are not observable in the latter. Thecircumstance that Lake Tchad lies beyond the limits of the typical WestAfrican forest region, and possesses a different fauna, including giraffes,should likewise not be omitted from consideration. From all these circum-stances taken together there seems a considerable degree oi probability thatthe Lake Tchad buffalo represents a race by itself, although additional 1 Nurnitkr of Travels and Discoveria in North
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . t can be definitely assigned to nanus ; while thelarge pits in the forehead of the skull are not observable in the latter. Thecircumstance that Lake Tchad lies beyond the limits of the typical WestAfrican forest region, and possesses a different fauna, including giraffes,should likewise not be omitted from consideration. From all these circum-stances taken together there seems a considerable degree oi probability thatthe Lake Tchad buffalo represents a race by itself, although additional 1 Nurnitkr of Travels and Discoveria in Northern mid Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 23, and 24,by Major Dcnham, Capt. Clapperton, and Dr. Oiidncy, maps and plates, 2 vols. Svo (1826). Q 114 Oxen specimens are essential before the point can be regarded as settled. Notimpossibly the skull oi a female buffalo with a gray pelage figured by in the memoir cited above, may prove to belong to thepresent form. Unfortunately, the exact locality whence that specimen wasobtained is Fig. 23.—Skull and horns of male Lake Tchad Buffalo. From the type specimenin the Briti>h Museum. In the presumed male the horns have a length of 18] inches along theouter curve, with a basal circumstance of io| inches, and an interval ot5^ inches between the tips. In the presumed female ^ the correspondingdimensions are 17, ii-^, and 6| inches. In the Records of Big Game, p. 275, Mr. Rowland Ward takes the same view as to the sexes ofthese two skulls. Algerian Buffalo 115 Distribution.—The neighbourhood of Lake Tchad, situated in WestCentral Africa due north-east of the Gulf of Guinea. 2. The Algerian Buffalo—Bos antiquus [Extinct) Bubaltis antiquus., Duvernoy, C. R. Acad. Paris., vol. xxxiii. p. 595(1851) ; Gervais, Zoo/, ct Pal. Gcncra/cs., ser. i, p. 93, pi. xix. (1867-69) ;Riitimeyer, Ahhandl. pal. Gcs. vol. v. p. 145 (1878) ; P. Thomas,Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1881, p. 30, pi. ii. ; Lydekker, Cat.
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