■^ Fauna : Mammals 



Same meaning in some of the native dialects. This designation 

 arises from the belief of the Negroes that the two large slit-like 

 glands on either side of the nose are a means ot vision. 

 Jentink's cephalophus has also been misnamed the " Tapir," 

 or the " Tapir Antelope," from the slight resemblance offered 

 by its coloration to the Tapir of Eastern Asia. It is an 

 exceedingly shy animal, supposed to exist still in some 

 abundance in the central parts of Liberia, especially near the 

 Dukwia and Farmington Rivers. But it lives in marshes or 

 very dense jungle near the river banks, and I believe, in 

 addition to Stampfli and Biittikofer, has only been seen by 

 one other European — Mr. I. F. Braham. Biittikofer states 

 that this antelope possesses large grease glands on either side 

 of the inguinal region just inside the thighs, and that from 

 these glands it rubs off^ flit on to its muzzle wherewith to 

 lubricate the hair of the body. 



The Zebra antelope is a medium-sized Cephalophus — 

 about sixteen inches high at the withers — which is striped 

 with black or orange-brown in the manner depicted in my 

 coloured illustration. This has been drawn from specimens 

 procured by Mr. Whicker from Central Liberia. Unlike 

 Jentink's duiker, it is quite a common antelope in the 

 interior of Liberia, and is known to the Americo-Liberians 

 as the Mountain Deer, as it frequents hilly districts. In the 

 early part of the nineteenth century a skin of this strangely 

 marked Cephalophus reached the Zoological Society from either 

 Sierra Leone or Liberia, and was named by Mr. Ogilby Antelope 

 dor'ia (after his wife, it is said'). Fifty years afterwards, 

 Biittikofer re-discovered the animal in Western Liberia, and 

 knowino- nothing of the skins in existence in London and Paris, 

 very naturally supposed he was the discoverer of a remarkable 

 ' Vide The Book of Antelopes, by Sclater and Thomas, p. 172. 



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