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among the least specialised antelopes, and offer some slight 

 approximation to the capricorns (mountain antelopes) and even 

 to the tragelaphs. It would seem as if in the one living Indian 

 example of the group— the four-horned antelope — the character- 

 istic tragelaphine white spot appears on the cheek, together 

 with the remains of the tragelaphine white markings on the 

 throat and fetlock. No trace of any such markings has yet been 

 revealed in the African cephalophines, but the study of this 

 group is very far from complete as regards anatomy, and any 

 traveller in Liberia who may be reading these lines and may 

 have an opportunity of collecting and forwarding in spirit fcetal 

 or immature specimens of cephalophine antelopes might enable 

 a good many moot points in their anatomy to be cleared up. 

 These antelopes (at any rate all that section with procumbent 

 horns) live almost entirely on leaves and bushes, and do not 

 graze. They are not silent animals, except when wishing to 

 remain unobserved ; most of them bleat like a goat. 



Liberia is remarkable for its Cephalophines, two of which, 

 so far as our present knowledge goes, would seem to be quite 

 pecuHar to that country in their distribution. These are the 

 big Jentink's duiker {Cephalophus jentinki), and the small 

 Zebra antelope {Cephalophus dori.e). There are also found in 

 this country Cephalophus sylvicultrix^ the largest of the duikers, 

 Cephalophus niger (the Black duiker), Ogilby's duiker 

 (C. ogilhyi — a small orange-brown antelope), and Cephalophus 

 maxzvellii, the little grey Maxwell's duiker. Mr. F. X. Stampfli, 

 of Biittikofer's expedition, discovered Jentink's duiker, and 

 Biittikofer re-discovered the Zebra antelope. The first-named 

 is a large Cephalophus (the size of a very big sheep), the 

 peculiar coloradon of which is sufficiently illustrated in the 

 accompanying coloured plate. This animal is called "Four- 

 eyes " by the Americo-Liberians, and goes by a name of the 



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