. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . uddier 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 k
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . uddier 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 procured from Abyssinia. H. A. Bryden. The Senegambian Buffalo (Bos coffer planiceros) Naturalists, despite the differences in size, coloration, and shape ofhorns, trace a distinct affinity between the great buffalo of South, East, and. Central Africa (Bos coffer typicus), and the buffaloes of Abyssinia, Senegambia,Lake Tchad, and the Congo. The buffalo of Senegambia stands midwaybetween the dark Cape buffalo and the small reddish buffalo of the is of a dark brown colour ; the horns are short, blunt, and fairly thickin the old males, recurved, and somewhat laterally expanded. From thislast characteristic this buffalo has been christened by scientists B. cofferplaniceros. Little is known of this, as of other animals of the Gambia I 20 Great and Small Game of Africa country. A fine pair of horns, those of an old male, are to be seenin the Natural History Museum. Their measurements are —lengthon outside curve, 13! inches ; circumference, io£ inches ; from tip to tip,28!, inches. H. A. Bryden. Congo or Dwarf Buffalo (Bos caffer nanus)Hausa Name, Bona ; Yoruba, Effon ; Igara, Effa ; Igbira, Aya The dwarf buffalo, or, as it is more generally
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