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logy and dentition of Vertebrated Animals, Royal College 

 of Surgeons, 1884, part II, p. 275). In dubiis abstine. 



Antilope pallida certainly does not belong to Pediotra- 

 gus: this Antelope has long pasterns (cf. H. Smith, 1. c. 

 p. 251). 



It is not very clear what Matschie says in describing 

 his Pediotragus Neumanni concerning the length of the 

 ears (cf. Sitzungsb. der Gesellsch. naturf, Freunde, Berlin, 

 1894, p. 123), viz.: »diese kleine Antilope unterscheidet 

 sich von P. tragidiis Licht, durch kürzere Ohren (ca. 11 cm. 

 laug)". Now we learn from Sclater's book of Antelopes, 

 that the ears of his campestris, resp. tragulus, measure 

 4,2 inches, that is about 10.50 cm., a length agreeing 

 exactly with what I find in the specimens of our collection, 

 my P. Horstockii. Now if Neumanni has shorter ears than 

 the latter species then they cannot measure ca. 11 cm. — 

 It therefore seems that we have to read » langere" instead 

 of » kürzere Ohren". Two other caracteristics mentioned 

 by Matschie are: »Fehlen der dunklen Hufeisenzeichnung 

 »auf dem Scheitel und der sch warzen Nasenzeichnung, sowie 

 »abweichende Körperfarbung". It seems that the horseshoe- 

 shaped marking as well as the dark colored nose-ornament 

 are by no means constant — both are too absent or nearly 

 so in our specimen of the true tragulus ; and the color 

 described by Matschie represents very well that in Scla- 

 ter's campestris, my Horstockii; so that if it later on ap- 

 pears that the characteristics exhibited by its author are 

 constant, then Neumanni at all events will be a species 

 very nearly related to Sclater's campestris, my Horstockii. 



Before proceeding to describe our species of the genus 

 Pediotragus I remark that all species have the upper sur- 

 face of the skull more or less roughened about as we know 

 it of the skull of Cephalophus Maxiuelli and of that of 

 Crocodiles, so ploughed it is with ridges, lines and holes, 

 as a rule in the males much more than in the females. 

 This and other cranial characteristics as a rule go pari 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, ^^ol. XXII. 



