. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . 81 White Nile 35i 32 28j| 8 Lado 354 325 3i* 7t White Nile ?354 32 25i 5 Dinder Valley . 35i 31* 29I 81 Blue Nile 35i 30§ 2I| 93 Do. 35i 30 l81 84 Do. 35 32 3i* 8f Do. Owner. W. F. Wailes-Fairbairn. Douglas McDouall. the Duke of Connaught. Major P. M. Dove. R. McD. Hawker. Capt. R. F. Balfour. F. W. Greswolde-Williams. • G. H. H. D. C. E. Hills. Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. P. Santos Saurez. Capt. W. E. Reymes-Cole. G. Blaine. Lord Desborough.
. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . 81 White Nile 35i 32 28j| 8 Lado 354 325 3i* 7t White Nile ?354 32 25i 5 Dinder Valley . 35i 31* 29I 81 Blue Nile 35i 30§ 2I| 93 Do. 35i 30 l81 84 Do. 35 32 3i* 8f Do. Owner. W. F. Wailes-Fairbairn. Douglas McDouall. the Duke of Connaught. Major P. M. Dove. R. McD. Hawker. Capt. R. F. Balfour. F. W. Greswolde-Williams. • G. H. H. D. C. E. Hills. Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. P. Santos Saurez. Capt. W. E. Reymes-Cole. G. Blaine. Lord Desborough. Capt. A. Craufurd. P. M. Tottenham. Col. A. Colville. Capt. the Hon. M. P. of Sefton. C. C. Tower. H. E. Allen. J. V. Colby. British Museum. R. A. Colvin. G. C. Whitaker. E. N. Buxton. Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. S. H. Whitbread. C. D. Eyre. Capt. N. A. Orr-Ewing. Capt. H. R. Headlam. J. Ponsonby. Norman B. Smith. OWNERS MEASUREMENTS. 431 37^ 28I 11 Nimuli . F. A. Knowles. 39! 34 3o4 84 Sobat . E. M. Tabor. 38S 35 35^ 91 White Nile Sir W. Garstin. 424 RECORDS OF BIG GAME. Skull and Horns of Congo (?) Dwarf Buffalo. C—SHORT-HORNED RACES (B. caffer brachyceros, B. c. planiceros, B. c. nanus, etc.). Bona, Hausa. Despite the differences in size, colour, and the form of the hornsbetween the dwarf red buffalo of the Congo (B. c. nanus) and its giganticblack cousin of the Cape, such a gradual transition can be traced fromthe one type to the other, that both are evidently nothing more thanlocal modifications of one variable species. In the dwarf buffalo ofthe Congo the colour of the hair is red or yellow, the ears are fringedwith very long hair, and the horns are much flattened at the base, withlong smooth tips directed upwards. This type may be traced, withsome modifications, to the Gabun. In Ashanti it is replaced by thered B. c. beddingtoni. In Gambia and Senegambia there is a largerbrownish buffalo, with more laterally expanded and recurved h
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