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blackish brown, bay in front ; feet and streak up the nose black- 

 ish ; inside of ears, chin, throat, chest, belly and hinder legs 

 whitish; horns short, conical. 



Inhab. W. Africa. Mr. Whitfield called it Coquetoon. 



There is an adult female in the collection of the Earl of Derby ; 

 a nearly adult male and two young females in the collection of 

 the British Museum ; the two latter brought by Mr. Whitfield 

 with the female before mentioned. 



4. White-backed Bush Buck, Cephalophus sylvicultrix. Ante- 

 lope sylvicultrix, Afzelius, N. Act.Upsal. vii. 123; H. Smith, Griff. 

 A. K. 1. 187. 



Blackish brown, minutely grisled ; hair brown, with whitish 

 tip ; back with a large yellowish white spot, narrow in front ; 

 throat, chest and belly redder ; crown, nape and legs darker. 



Inhab. Sierra Leone. 



Varies in the size of the dorsal spot. 



In the British Museum is a young male. Length 29 inches ; 

 height 18; tarsus 6*9. 



5. Black-striped Bush Buck, Cephalophus Ogilbii, Gray, Ann. 

 N. Hist. 1842. Antelope Ogilbii, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1838, 60. 



Pale bay brown, with a deep black dorsal streak, beneath pale ; 

 crown and haunches brighter bay ; neck and withers, and sides of 

 the dorsal line varied with deep brown hairs ; streak up the fore- 

 leg, upper part of hock, feet (above the hoof) and end of tail 

 blackish ; horns short, thick, conical, very rugose on the inner 

 front edges of the base. 



Inhab. Fernando Po. J. Thompson, Esq. 



6. Bay Bush Buck, Cephalophus dorsalis. 



Dark bay ; shoulders and legs darker ; the crown and nape, 

 broad streak along the back, hair brown, a few on the haunches 

 white-tipped ; end of the tail black, darker near the tail ; sides 

 of the chin, front of chest, and inside of the thigh pale brown. 



Inhab. Sierra Leone. Called Bush Goat. 



In the British Museum a young male brought to this country 

 by Mr. Whitfield, which died in the Surrey Zoological Gardens. 



7. Black Bush Buck, Cephalophus niger. Antelope niger, Mus. 

 Leyden. 



Sooty-black, grayer in the front half of the body ; chin, throat, 

 abdomen and inside of thighs gray ; forehead, crown, dark bay 

 and black mixed ; cheeks pale brown and black varied ; tail end 

 whitish. 



Inhab. Guinea. 



In the British Museum there is a male from the Leyden Mu- 



