The Bubal has been long introduced to the zoological gardens of Europe, and its name occurs in the MS. Catalogues of the Zoological Society as early as 1832. It bred in the Derby Menagerie, and the young one was figured in the drawings illustrative of that splendid collection (pl. xx.). It is not, however, very common in captivity, and of late years but few specimens have been received. At the present time there is only a single example of this Antelope in the Zoological Society’s collection. It is a female, presented by Mr. Robert Pitcairn, of Oran, in October 1883, and obtained, no doubt, in the interior of Western Algeria. Mr. Smit’s illustration (Plate I.) was prepared from this specimen. The series of specimens of this Antelope in the British Museum is not by any means a full one. There are an adult male (stuffed) and an adult female (in skin) from the Zoological Society’s old collection, and a young one obtained by Fraser in the Djereed of Tunis in 1846, besides some pairs of horns and frontlets. Fresh examples of this species from definite localities would therefore be highly valued by the Trustees. _May, 1894._ 2. THE WEST-AFRICAN BUBAL. BUBALIS MAJOR (BLYTH). _Boselaphus bubalis_, var. 1, =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 139 (?). _Alcelaphus bubalis_, var. _tunisianus_, =Gray=, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 123 (1852); id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 44 (1872) (?). _Boselaphus major_, =Blyth=, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 52, fig. A 1 (horns). _Alcelaphus major_, =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 44 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. p. 114 (1873). “_Bubalis lelwel_, Heugl.,” =Matsch.= Arch. f. Nat. 1891, pt. i. p. 355 (Cameroons). _Bubalis major_, =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 62 (1892); =Matsch.= Mitth. deutsch. Schutzgebiet, vi. pt. iii. p. 17 (1893) (Togo); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 196 (1893). Essential characters as in _B. buselaphus_, but larger in all its dimensions. “Body of a uniform greyish brown; face deep brown; fore legs streaked with dark brown or blackish from the knees downwards. Terminal tuft of tail black. “Frontal bone between the base of the horns and orbit convex, the same part being remarkably flat in other species.” (_Brooke_, MS.) Facial length 17½ inches, muzzle to orbit 13, breadth of forehead 4·4. Horns curved as in the Bubal, but longer and heavier, their length round the curves amounting to over 20 inches. _Hab._ Gambia, Lower Niger district, and interior of Cameroons. There can be no doubt of the existence of a Bubal allied to _B. buselaphus_ in several districts on the West Coast of Africa. But there are no perfect specimens of this Antelope at present available for comparison, and its distinctness from its northern representative may still be a matter of some uncertainty, although we have good reason to believe that the two species will ultimately prove to be specifically different.