118 CEPHALOPHUS COXI. 



ceedingly splendid animal, so exactly agreeing with the 

 figure 2, Plate XIV, of the Book of Antelopes, that a 

 better portrait cannot be desired ! Compared side by side 

 with our Cephalophus szYmcw^^or-specimens, every one must 

 be struck by the distinctness of the animals. Now all 

 specimens of C. silvicidtor are from the West-Coast of 

 Africa and it therefore may be no wonder to meet with 

 a differently colored species in a locality as Rhodesia, so 

 far from the West-Coast of Africa. In the P. Z. S. L. 1902, 

 Vol. I, p. 2, there is however a communication by Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas, relating an Antelope from North-Eastern Rhodesia; 

 he said: » that there are no differences of importance per- 

 »ceptible between the Rhodesian specimen and examples 

 »from West-Africa." »No differences of importance,'^ this 

 means that there are some differences, meanwhile » impor- 

 tance" is a very tensible word ! The authors of the Book 

 of Antelopes did not think the differences between the two 

 above mentioned figures of enough importance to make a 

 distinct species of the animal of unknown origin — but 

 of a so different color — as that figured on Plate XIV, 

 fig. 2 ! I should be inclined to suggest, that the Rhodesia- 

 specimen in the British Museum perhaps agrees with the 

 latter figure and therefore belongs to the same species as 

 our Rhodesia-specimen ! And that this perhaps is the case 

 with a frontlet and a piece of skin also received from 

 Mr. Baragwanath of Bulawayo, obtained in the same district 

 and now in the British Museum ! This may be a correct 

 hypothesis or not, a fact is that our Rhodesia-specimen is 

 quite distinct from the West-African C. silvicultor, so that 

 I propose to regard it as the type of a new species : 



Cephalophus Coxi, 

 after its discoverer Mr. Cox. 



Sex : male. 



Locality : Rhodesia. 



Figured in the Book of Antelopes, Part I, Plate XIV, 

 fig. 2, under the name of Cephalophus sylvicultrix. The 



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