A pair of horns of this Antelope was amongst the specimens obtained by Dr. Percy Kendall from the Gambia in 1890. Another very fine pair was brought by Sir Gilbert Carter from the Gambia in 1891, from which the accompanying drawings (figs. 1 a and 1 b, p. 12) have been taken. These horns are in Sclater’s possession.
The two other figures (figs. 1 c and 1 d, p. 13) were prepared by Sir Victor Brooke, probably from horns in his collection.
Besides Blyth’s frontlets already mentioned, there are a pair of horns of the Bubal in the British Museum obtained by Mr. E. Bower on the Lower Niger in 1892, and several other specimens of horns without exact localities. Sclater has also examined, casually, a mounted specimen in the Senckenbergian Museum at Frankfort-a/M., labelled Bubalis mauritanica, which is probably of this species. According to his notes it is “nearly uniform brown; forehead ferruginous; black round the feet.”
May, 1894.
3. THE TORA.
BUBALIS TORA (Gray).
Buselaphus bubalis, Heugl. Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leopold. Carol. xxx. pt. ii.) p. 21 (1863) (nec Pall.).
Tétel (Antilope bubalis), Baker, Nile Tributaries, p. 179 (1867).
Alcelaphus tora, Gray, Nature, viii. p. 364; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xii. p. 341 (1873); id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 172, pl. xli. (skull and horns) (1873); Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 729 and 762 (Settite R.), 1875, p. 529; Rütimeyer, Rind. Tert.-Epoch. p. 47, pl. v. figs. 7 & 8 (1877); Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 139 (1887); Lyd. Field, lxxvii. p. 858 (1891); Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 171 (1892).
Acronotus bubalis, Heugl. Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 122 (1877).
Bubalis bubalis, Brehm, Thierl. iii. p. 217, pl. (animal) (1880).