Zoological Society. 139 



(No. 8 Blomfield Street, Moorfields, formerly in Austin Friars), 

 Case 5, described by Colonel H. Smith under the name of A. Platous, 

 is the size and has the horns and ears of an adult C. Grimmia, but 

 differs in being paler, and having no dark colour on the nose or feet ; 

 but it is evidently much bleached. It has certainly no relation to 

 the C. sylvicultrix, with which Colonel Smith was afterwards inclined 

 to place it as a variety (Griff. A. K. Syn. v. 344). 



There are three species which have been called Antilope Grimmia: — 



1. The Capra sylvestris africana of N. Grimm, Misc. Cur. No- 

 rimb. 1705, 131. 1. 13, the authority for Capra Grimmii, Ray, Syn. 80, 

 and Linn. S. N. (ed. 10) 70. Moschus Grimmia, Linn. S. N. ed. 12, 

 from the Cape, of a dull grey colour. Probably the Duyker. 



2. Le Grimme of Buffon, H. N. xii. 307. 329. t. 41. f. 2, 3, from 

 a head sent from Senegal by Adanson ; the Antilope Grimmia of Des- 

 marest, F. Cuvier, and H. Smith, &c. ; the Cephalophus rufilatus. 



3. The A. Grimmia of Pallas, with large ears and a black streak 

 to the horns, like C. Campbellice, but is from Guinea. I know of no 

 species common to the W. and S. coast of Africa, so that it is pro- 

 bably yet to be distinguished. 



The "Fitomba" or "Philantomba" appears to be the generic name 

 of all the W. African Cephalophi or Bush Antelopes. 



3. Cephalophus Campbellice. The Black-faced Philan- 

 tomba. 



Grey and black grisled, beneath white ; cheeks, neck and chest yel- 

 lowish ; forehead yellow, with a black streak on the nose widening on 

 the forehead and ending in a tuft behind the horns ; feet and front of 

 fore-legs reddish black ; fur soft ; hair grey, with black ring and tip ; 

 ears elongate acute. 



Antilope Grimmia, Pallas, Spic. Zool. xii. 18. 1. 1 ? — C. Burchellii, 

 var. (C. Campbellice), Gray, Cat. B. M. 162. — C. Campbellice, Gray, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1846, 164 ; Knowsley Menag. 9. t. 2. f. 3. 



Inhabits S. Africa. Brit. Mus. 



This species is at once known from the Duyker by being much 

 darker and distinctly grisled or dotted, and the under side being much 

 whiter. 



We have an adult female of this species sent us as A. mergens, var. 

 Burchellii, by M. Sundevall (the other specimen of the same name 

 being a true Duyker), and a young specimen which has been in the 

 British Museum for several years, sent from Africa, under the generic 

 name of Philantomba, by Mrs. Campbell. 



The A. Grimmia of Pallas, Spic. Zool. i. 18. t. 3, which he de- 

 scribes as grey grisled, becoming brownish ash on the buttocks ; 

 throat, chest and beneath the body white ; head and neck yellowish 

 grey ; a black streak between the horns, forming a fascia on the fore- 

 head and broader on the nose ; fur softer than the Deer, but rough, 

 of lower part of the neck rougher and more lax ; feet and line on fore- 

 legs blackish ; tail black above ; ears rather acute : inhabits Guinea ; 

 agrees in most respects with this species, but most probably is yet to 

 be procured from W. Africa. 



