CEPHALOPIIUS COXI. 117 



NOTE II. 



ON A NEW ANTELOPE, CEPHALOPHUS COXI, 

 FROM NORTH-WESTERN RHODESIA 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



March 1906. 



lu Part I of the well-known Book of Antelopes there 

 is a figure (Plate XIV, fig. 2), under the name Cephalophus 

 sylvicultrix, representing an animal of a color quite diffe- 

 rent from all the known specimens of C. silvicultor and 

 therefore too differing from the animal figured I.e. plate XIH. 

 The authors of the Book of Antelopes, p. 130, relate: »our 

 » second figure (Plate XIV, fig. 2), which was prepared by 

 »Mr. Smit under Sir Victor Brooke's directions, probably 

 » represents a young male of this species; but we do not 

 »know for certain from what specimen it was taken." That 

 this figure represents a young animal, as the authors of the 

 Book of Antelopes suggested, is not very likely, as the 

 figure agrees in size with that of the full-grown very old 

 specimen on plate XIII, and as the horns are of the same 

 size apparently as those of plate XIII; we may therefore 

 be sure that this aberrant form has been drawn after an 

 adult individual ; nothing is to be seen in that drawing 

 to base upon the suggestion about its sex ; the locality 

 too is unknown. 



There is now in our Museum an Antelope shot by Mr. Cox 

 in North- Western Rhodesia; it is an adult male, an ex- 



ISTotes from the Ijeydeii JMuseum, V'ol. XXVIII. 



