. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . a Leone . 20 iS I2i S. Nigeria 19! 14 13 Sierra Leone . 19 10 Lake Chad i8| ni Nigeria . i8| 16 8i ? i8i 12 65 Gambia . i8| 17 15 N. Nigeria i8i 17 Si Do. i8i ni p5XJ4 Senegambia ?i8i IOj 3 Do. i8i 174 4l Congo $i8£ IO| 5i Lake Chad District . D. D. F. MacCarthy M. E. J. B. R. M. J. F. Bill. Capt. W. V. Nugent. Capt. E. J. Carter. Hon. Walter Rothschild. W.
. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . a Leone . 20 iS I2i S. Nigeria 19! 14 13 Sierra Leone . 19 10 Lake Chad i8| ni Nigeria . i8| 16 8i ? i8i 12 65 Gambia . i8| 17 15 N. Nigeria i8i 17 Si Do. i8i ni p5XJ4 Senegambia ?i8i IOj 3 Do. i8i 174 4l Congo $i8£ IO| 5i Lake Chad District . D. D. F. MacCarthy M. E. J. B. R. M. J. F. Bill. Capt. W. V. Nugent. Capt. E. J. Carter. Hon. Walter Rothschild. W. H. Broun. A. W. Boddy. H. C. Goddard. Major J. B. Cockburn. J. F. Pett. Hon. Walter Fenwick-Owen. Col. J. J. Harrison. British Museum (Capt. Denham, Col. Clapperton). 26S 22| 21^17 26^I4J OWNERS Nigeria . H. G. Glenay. Sierra Leone Capt. H. A. Carter. The following specimens from the French Congo may belong toB. coffer brachyceros :■— Shot by the late Prince P. Demidoff. Length. Girth. T p to Tip. 28 24v I3S 26 i8i 25i 25 21 J. ?22| 16 i6i INDIAN BUFFAIO 427. Head of Indian Buffalo. Shot by the late Maharaja of Cooch Behar. The. INDIAN BUFFALO or ARNA (Bos [Bubalus] bubalis). No one is the least likely to confuse this animal with the Africanspecies. Both belong, indeed, to the same group of the genus Bos,and have the same rounded upper portion of the head and angulatedhorns. In the Indian species, however, the head is much longer, theears are narrower and less heavily haired, and the horns of the maleare widely separated on the forehead and totally different in types of horns may be recognised—one very massive, and curvingregularly up from each side of the head in a subcircular manner ; theother more slender, directed for the greater part of their lengthalmost straight out from the head, and always with a wider first is the typical race (B. bubalis typicus), while the second, orAssam, race (probably now exti
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