BUBALUS LUNATUS.
M ammalia.— P l a t e XXXI.
B. genis, cervice, corporeque subbadiis purpureo-griseo-lsevigatis; fascia yerticali inter nasem verticemque
brunneo-grised, nigro-brunneo-marginata; artu singulo superne et exteme. facia yerticali brunneo-
griseo-notato; comubus illisbovis subsimilibus. Oculis pallid^ brunneo-rubris.
L ongittjdo. e naso ad basin caudse, 6 ped. 10 unc.; caudae, 15^ unc.
Altitudo ad interscapulium, 4 ped. 6 une.; ad prymnam 3 ped. 6 unc.
Acronotus Lunata, Hamilton Smith.
Sassaby of tbe Bechuanna Kafirs.
C o lo u r .— The sides of the head below the eyes, together with the neck and
the body, are of a tint intermediate between hyacinth, red, and reddish orange,
and over that, the ground colour, there is a distinct gloss of pale brownish
purple red which gives an appearance similar to that produced when a light
coloured varnish is applied over a dark ground; on the sides of the head and
first half of the neck, the purplish hue is more palpable than elsewhere, and
on the outer surface of the buttocks the ground colour is lighter than on any
other part of the animal. The centre of the forehead and face is a dark
brownish grey, margined on each side with dull blackish brown; on the face
the stripe is of considerable breadth, and its lower extremity, which is angular
and pointed, reaches close to the centre of the muzzle; on the forehead it is
narrow, and above it terminates in the blackish brown hair of the vertex. The
hair between the eyes and the base of the horns, as also that on each side of the
facial stripe, and that which covers the upper lip intermediate between brownish
and reddish orange ; a narrow stripe on each side of nostrils light cream-yellow.
The outer surface of the ears brownish orange; the inner surface white. A
mark of a brownish grey colour, and of a similar character to that which exists
upon the upper and outer portion of each leg of Bubalus Caama, also occurs in