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NOTE XXV. 

 ON TWO RE-DISCOYERED ANTELOPES. 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



September 1885. 



La manie de faire des espèces doit être Hen 

 entrainante, pour en étahl'ir même sur des 

 lamieaux de dépouille d^un animal, quon 

 doute encore que ce soit effectivement une 

 Antilope {TemmincU). 



Among the Mammals collected by our travellers in Li- 

 beria are two Antelopes of a peculiar scientific interest; 

 the one procured by Mr. Büttikofer was only known from 

 a description and name given to a flat skin without head , 

 neck, extremities and tail; the other, sent over by Mr. 

 Stampfli, is the first complete representative of a species 

 created in favour of a skull without horns belonging to 

 an Antelope. The named piece of a skin as well as the 

 skull are in the British Museum. As in so many other 

 cases, if species have been described after insufficient ma- 

 terials , these type-specimens have a very problematical 

 scientific value and the results of the laughing efforts to 

 create as many species as possible in order to secure types 

 are in the case under consideration that several natura- 

 lists have spent much time and filled many waste-paper. 



In describing the named species I subscribe Ogilby's 

 statement, that the re-discovery of an old species was at 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseum, Vol. "VII. 



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