. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . ith the hair longer and lightercoloured, assuming a brownish-red tinge on the fore-quarters. Pits onforehead ot skull small. The type of the Buha/us planiceros oi Blyth is the frontlet and horns ofa very old bull, formerly preserved at Kings College, London, but now inthe British Museum. There is no record as to the place of origin ot thisspecimen, which is shown in the accompanying tigure. The points ot thehorns are so worn as to be blunt and rounded, and the rugosities upon their I04 Oxen surface are mostly abraded. The Btihaliis
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . ith the hair longer and lightercoloured, assuming a brownish-red tinge on the fore-quarters. Pits onforehead ot skull small. The type of the Buha/us planiceros oi Blyth is the frontlet and horns ofa very old bull, formerly preserved at Kings College, London, but now inthe British Museum. There is no record as to the place of origin ot thisspecimen, which is shown in the accompanying tigure. The points ot thehorns are so worn as to be blunt and rounded, and the rugosities upon their I04 Oxen surface are mostly abraded. The Btihaliis centralis of Gray is typihed by askull in the British Museum (No. 65, 3, 30, i), with the right hornpreserved, obtained from some part of West Africa.^ It belongs to ayounger bull, the point of the horn being sharp, and directed comparison of these two specimens shows that they certainly belong tothe same form ; the horns in both being quite different in shape fromthose ot the type of B. cajfcr luinus, and much more like those oi ( Fig. 19.—Frontlet and horns of aged bull of the Senegambian Buffalo. From the tvpc specimenin the British Museum. A third pair of horns belonging to an adult (Fig. 20), although not aged,bull, are in the possession of Sir R. B. Llewelyn, the Governor of theGambia, from which colony they were obtained. They are in a fine stateof preservation, with the points sharp and slightly directed backwards ;and are important as indicating that the tvpes o\ phinlccros and centraliswere likewise obtained from Senegambia or the adjacent districts. A young bull from Senegal mounted in the Paris Museum appearslikewise referable to the present race, although it is labelled B. the fore-quarters the colour of the hair is reddish-brown, but elsewhere • In the Ihuid-liit of 1873, erroneously stated to have been collected by Dr. Baikie. Sene^ambian Buffalo 105 on the body the tint is darker than in ihnius^ while the muzzle and limb
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