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NOTE XIV. 

 ON CEPHALOPHUS SILVICULTOR (AFZELIUS) 



Dr. F, A. JENTINK. 



November 1900. 



(Plates 1 and 2). 



In May of this year died in the Rotterdam Zoological 

 Garden the beautiful male-specimen of Caphalophus silvicultor : 

 immediately it has been brought over to Ley den, so that 

 we could study it in the flesh, take all measurements and 

 make casts of different important parts. The skeleton and 

 the highly artistic stuffed skin is now in our collection. 

 Besides it there are in our Museum the skin of a nearly 

 adult male with its skeleton, the skull of another adult 

 male-specimen, the skull of a nearly adult female and 

 finally the mounted skin of a young female with its 

 skeleton. The latter died in 1894 in the Rotterdam Zoolo- 

 gical Garden and is like the first mentioned adult male 

 from the Congo : the other specimens have been procured 

 by Mr. Jackson Demery from Liberia, Grand Cape Mount, 

 in 1892, 1893 and 1896. The adult male from the Congo 

 lived 9 years in the Rotterdam Garden: it therefore may 

 be called a very adult specimen. 



In comparing the original description and figures of 

 animal and horns given by Afzelius in 1815 with those 

 in the most recently published monograph by Sclater and 

 Oldfield Thomas in May 1895, everyone must confess that 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXII. 



