CEniALOPiiiNy?': 105 



shades into that of the back. The legs are rufous, with a 

 smoky brown mark above the sides of hoofs ; face nearly 

 black, with a dull rufous brown stripe ; tail black above and 

 white beneath. 



Xo specimen in collection. 



XXIX. CEPHALOPHUS (GUEVEI) HECKI. 



Cephalophus hecki, Matscliie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1897, p. 158 ; 

 Lydehker, Game Animals of Africa, p. 165, 1908. 



Typical locality Mozambique. 



Type apparently in Berlin. 



Said to be distinguished from C. nyascc l)y having more, 

 instead of less, white on under-parts, as compared with 

 moiiticola, by being apparently less rufous on body, and by 

 lacking the usual dark markings on back of pasterns '; legs 

 rufous, as in monticola ; hoofs smaller than in either that 

 species or nyasce. 



7. 6. 2. 106. Skin. Beira, Portuguese East Africa ; 

 collected by Mr. C. H. B. Grant. 



Presented by C. D. Iludcl, Esq., 1907. 



XXX. CEPHALOPHUS (GUEVEI) SIMPSOXI. 



Cephalophus simpsoni, TJiomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. v, 

 p. 92, 1910. 



Typical locality Lukenye Valley, South Central Congo. 



Smaller than nyasce, with a relatively short skull ; median 

 dorsal area dark vandyke-brown for a breadth of about three 

 inches, passing through burnt-umber into deep rufous on 

 flanks and limbs ; under-parts paler rufous, with the median 

 region whitish, and the bases of the hairs everywhere grey ; 

 under side of lower jaw whitish ; throat dull russet ; crown 

 and top of muzzle dark brown ; eyebrow-streak and cheeks 

 reddish; a line on inner side of fore-legs and thighs white, 

 limbs otherwise rufous. Basal length of skull oyf inches 

 (99-5 mm.), maximum width 2-Jg inches (51-5 mm.), length 

 of upper series of cheek-teeth 1-fg inches (32-5 mm.). Its 

 general reddish colour distiuguishes this duiker from C. 



