. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . I7i lOi Victoria Island, NigerS. Nigeria Lower iS 15 Ashanti i8 152 iii S. Nigeria i8 t 5 Gambia 17* 10 4i Do. I7i 9^ 4 Cameruns 9175 13* I7i Nigeria I7i 10 4 Senegambia i7i II II Likati, Congo ?i7i 10 S. Nigeria ?i7 Hi 3 N. Nigeria 917 9i 7 Nepoko Valley, Congo 15A 14L 14 Ituri, Congo 9 i\\ 9i Lokoja Owner. A. W. Boddy. H. C. Goddard. Capt. J. B. Cockburn. J. F. Pett. Hon. Walter Rothschild. Col. J. J. Harrison. British Museum (Capt. Denham and Col. Clapperton).Capt. R. H. Mon
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . I7i lOi Victoria Island, NigerS. Nigeria Lower iS 15 Ashanti i8 152 iii S. Nigeria i8 t 5 Gambia 17* 10 4i Do. I7i 9^ 4 Cameruns 9175 13* I7i Nigeria I7i 10 4 Senegambia i7i II II Likati, Congo ?i7i 10 S. Nigeria ?i7 Hi 3 N. Nigeria 917 9i 7 Nepoko Valley, Congo 15A 14L 14 Ituri, Congo 9 i\\ 9i Lokoja Owner. A. W. Boddy. H. C. Goddard. Capt. J. B. Cockburn. J. F. Pett. Hon. Walter Rothschild. Col. J. J. Harrison. British Museum (Capt. Denham and Col. Clapperton).Capt. R. H. Monck-Mason. Capt. II. T. G. Moore. F. F. Fell. J. II. L. Thompson. Capt. 11. S. Toppin. British Museum (Sir Edmund ). Capt. H. V. Venables Kyrke. Abe Bailey. M. Calmeyn. Capt. H. T. G. Moore. Capt. O. M. Harris. R. de la Huerta. Major r. H. (i. Powell-Cotton. British Museum (Col. A. J. Arnold). The following specimens from the French Congo may belong to B. caffer bracJiyceros :— Shot by the late Prince P. Demidoff. Length. Girth. Tip to Tip. 28 24f 13^ 26 2lh i8i 25h 25 2li 9 22i 16 i6i INDIAN BUFFAIO 427. Head of Indian Buffalo. Shot by the Maliaiaja 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 ext
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