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ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 4. N:0 16. 



Mr Laman writes about this animal. »Ndutu» is the 

 most important game hunted when the grass has been burnt 

 off. It lives in iarge groves where tliere are stones and 

 holes in the earth in which it seeks shelter for the dögs, 

 which, however, run down and try to drive ont the »Ndutu». 

 It then runs out and tries to hide somewhere , else but is 

 shot by the negroes who ha ve surrounded the grove and the 

 poor »Ndutu» is easily seen when the grass is burnt and it 

 tries to cross över the open space to another grove. Some- 

 times the natives lie in wait for the »Ndutu» when it comes 

 out in the evenings to feed, for its biting off the grass etc. 

 is quite audible in the silent evening». 



Cephalophus nyasce congicus n. subsp. 



2 specimens (1 ^ ad. 1 J* semiad). 



Native name »Nsesi» or »Nansesi». 



PousARGUE has recorded Cephalophus monticola Thun- 

 BERG among the mammals of French Congo, but the two 

 Blue Duikers of the monticola group in this collection are 

 most distinctly different from the South African representa- 

 tives of this group and closely alhed to Cephalophus nyasce 

 Thomas described from Mlanje, Nyasa.^ This is proved at 

 once by the shape of the skull which exhibits the same 

 remarkable length and narrowness of the muzzle as Thomas 

 has described in the type of C. nyasce. The dimensions of 

 the skull of the old male specimen of this collection com- 

 pared with those recorded by Thomas for the type of C. nyasce 

 are set forth in the following table: 



Greatest length of skull . 



Length of nasals 



Greatest breadth of nasals 

 Breadth across prsemaxillse 

 » of braincase . . . 

 Palate length 



Type of 

 C. n y ascB 



135 mm. 

 50 » 

 19 ^ 

 14 » 

 45 « 

 68 » 



The specimen 

 from Consfo 



133 

 45 

 22 

 13,5 

 49 

 67 



^ Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) Vol. 9. 1902, p. 58. 



