CEPHALOPHINiE 79 



XIV. CEPHALOPHUS LEUCOGASTEK. 



Cephalophus leucogaster, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii, 

 p. 48, 1873 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p, 420 ; Lijdehker, 

 Horns and Hoofs, p. 201, 1893, Great and Small Game of 

 Africa, p. 215, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 154, 1908 ; 

 Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, p. 153, 1895 ; 

 Alexander, From Niger to Nile, vol. ii, p. 391, 1907. 



Typical locality Gabim. 



Size medium; height at shoulder about 16 inches. 

 General colour dull chestnut-rufous, with a broad blackish 

 dorsal stripe ; face rufous darkening into brown in middle 

 line ; crest mixed rufous and black ; nape browner ; hind 

 aspect of buttocks and under-parts whitish ; fore-legs and hind- 

 legs posteriorly slaty grey. The dorsal stripe is mixed with 

 rufous on withers, and becomes narrow and sharply defined 

 near tail, which terminates in a large black tuft mingled 

 with white. The presence of a white streak along front of 

 the hind-shanks, described as a specific character, is not 

 constant. The range extends from the Gabun to the 

 Cameruns and Congo. 



61. 7. 29. 20. Skin, mounted, and skull, immature. 

 Gabun ; collected by Monsieur P. du Chaillu. Type. 



Purchased, 1861. 



3. 2. 4. 26. Skull, with horns, and skin, female. Efulen, 

 Cameruns ; collected by G. L. Bates, Esq. Purchased, 1903. 



3. 2. 4. 29. Skull, with horns. Same locality and 

 collector. Same history. 



3. 2. 4. 30. Imi*Qature skull, with horns. Same locality 

 and collector. Same history. 



3. 2. 4. 31. A similar specimen. Same locality and 

 collector. Same history. 



1. 5. 4. 6. Skull, with horns, and skin. Stanley Ealls, 

 Congo ; collected by Capt. Weyns. 



Presented hy the Congo Free State Museum, 1901. 



7. 7. 8. 223. Immature skull, with horns, and skin. 

 Bambili, Welle Valley. 



Presented hy the Alexander -Gosling Expedition, 1907. 



