. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . rn Sudan and UpperGuinea there occurs a blackish-brown buffalo regarded by some zoologistsas a mere variety ot piimilus [ = !iaiii/s), but by others as a distinct speciesunder the name of centralis. That it intergrades both with the northernform of nanus and with planiceros, I have, as already stated, little doubt;and if this be so, it certainly cannot rank higher than a sub-species. Distribution.—^The interior of Senegambia, Upper Guinea, and theFrench Sudan—that is to say, to the north and east of the tvpical WestAfrican forest re
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . rn Sudan and UpperGuinea there occurs a blackish-brown buffalo regarded by some zoologistsas a mere variety ot piimilus [ = !iaiii/s), but by others as a distinct speciesunder the name of centralis. That it intergrades both with the northernform of nanus and with planiceros, I have, as already stated, little doubt;and if this be so, it certainly cannot rank higher than a sub-species. Distribution.—^The interior of Senegambia, Upper Guinea, and theFrench Sudan—that is to say, to the north and east of the tvpical WestAfrican forest region. IO( Oxen d. Congo, or Red Race—Bos caffer nanus Bos nanus, Boddaert, E/cnchus Anini. p. 152 (17H5) ; Ward, Records ofBig Givnc, p. 275 (1896), in part. Bos punulus, Kan-, Aniin. Kingdom, p. 340 (1792) ; Turton, Transl. Nat. vol. i. p. 121 (1806) ; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acc/ini. Paris, vol. ^^4:5 (1891), in part; Flower and hyt^ckker, Sti/dy of Maninni/s, -^p. :;6i(1891) ; Brehni, licrlchcn,— Sdiigct/i. vol. iii. p. 319 (1891).. Fig. 21.—Frontlet and horns of aged bull of the Congo Buffalo. From the typespecimen in the British Museum. Bos brachyccros, Pd, Bi/dr. tot Dierki/ndc,yp. 33 (i 854),/at Sundevall, hrachicheros, Du Chaillu, Exp/or. Eqnat. Africa, p. 210 (1861).Buhahis rccUnis, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 187:;, p. 158 ; Gray, Cat. Rumi-nants Brit. Mus. p. 12 (1872), Hand-list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 82 Bubalus pumilus, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 482, pi. liv., 1875,p. 485, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xiii. p. 159 (1874) ; Flower and ,?^ J^^J .:.^i WiLiD OxEK, Sheep, VIII
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