166 Mr. J. E. Gray on some Species of Cephalophus. 



seum nearly as large as the former. There is at Knowsley a Bush 

 Buck, which is now shining black with a reddish brown crest ; 

 when young it was red on the sides ; it is perhaps the same as 

 the above. 



8. Natal Bush Buck, Cephalophus natalensis. Antelope nata- 

 lensis, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Jour. 217 j 111. Z. S. A. t. 32. 



Bright red bay ; nape, withers and feet varied with dark gray 

 hairs ; nose-streak short, blackish; lips, chin, upper part of 

 throat and end of tail white ; lower part of cheek, throat and ab- 

 domen pale yellowish ; crown and tuft bright red ; horns short, 

 conical. 



Inhab. S. Africa. Port Natal. 



There are five specimens of different ages in the British Mu- 

 seum : this species resembles C. Ogilbii in size and colouring, but 

 wants the dorsal streak. 



9. The Coquetoon, Cephalophus rufilatus. A. Grimmia, H. 

 Smith, G. A. K. v. 266. Grimme, Buffon, H. N. xii. t. 41. f. 2, 3 j 

 F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t. . not good. 



Deep reddish bay ; the legs, nape, streak on the nose to the 

 crown and broad streak on the back blackish gray ; ears blackish ; 

 crest and upper part of tail black ; cheek rather paler ; chin and 

 abdomen pale yellowish ; inside of ears whitish, with a brown 

 spot on the outer side ; horns conical, rather elongate, obscurely 

 annulated, slightly recurved. 



Inhab. Sierra Leone. Village of Waterloo. Called Coquetoon. 



The hair is rather paler at the base, of the dorsal streak gray, 

 with a blackish tip. 



There is a male and female in the museum of the Earl of Derby, 

 and a young female in the collection of the British Museum, pre- 

 sented by the Earl of Derby. The male is 27 inches high. 

 Length 15 ; at the tarsus 5*6; the horns are nearly 3 inches 

 long. 



M. F. Cuvier's (Mam. Lithog. t. ) figure is evidently in- 

 tended for this species, but it is much paler than any specimen I 

 have seen, and the distribution of the colour of the separate head 

 appears to have been taken for the Guevei ? 



10. The Guevei, Cephalophus Maxwellii, H. Smith, G. A. K. 

 v. 347. A. pygmea, Pallas, Spec. xii. 18. froh^ The Guevei, 

 Buffon, not Licht. A. pygmea {Guevei), F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. 

 t. . good, H. N. xii. t. 43. f. 2. horn ? ? Antelope Frederici, 

 Laur., Sundevall. A. Philantomba, Ogilby. 



Gray brown or sooty brown; sides of head and body grayer; 

 chin, throat, chest and belly whitish gray; abdomen and front of 



