154 ANTELOPES 



LEOPOLD'S DUIKER 



( Cephaloplms Icopoldi) 



In addition to the above-mentioned Ituri red duiker, the red group 

 of the genus, as typified by CepJialopJius natalensis, is represented in 

 the Ituri Forest of East Central Africa by a duiker to which Baron 

 Maurice de Rothschild and Mr. H. Neuville {Compt. Rend. Ac. Paris, 

 1906, p. 1257) have given the name C. leopoldi. They regard it as near 

 akin to C. iiigi-ifrons and C. harveyi, but distinguished by features of 

 sufficient importance to permit its recognition as a distinct species. 



In the stoutness of its horns it agrees with the two species last 

 mentioned, but exceeds both in the degree of development of this 

 character. The general colour recalls that of natalensis, being bright 

 rufous, but is rather darker on the back and duller on the neck and 

 shoulder than in that species. The crest is long and entirely chestnut, 

 thereby differing from harveyi and nigrifrons, as well as natalensis ; 

 but it has nevertheless a darker and redder tint than the general body- 

 colour. The muzzle and nose are black, while there are flecks of 

 black on the forehead, in which respect this duiker comes nearer to 

 natalensis than to the other two species. The ears, which are white 

 interiorly, have black tips. The throat is whitish ; the cheeks are 

 of a grey-fawn, like the upper part of the chest ; the lower part of 

 the latter and the under-parts generally being blackish fawn, unlike 

 harveyi and natalensis ; while the groin is whitish. The lower segments 

 of the limbs, especially in the hind pair, are blackish ; in this respect 

 resembling nigrifrons and differing from natalensis and harveyi. The 

 tail is rufous in the basal portion of its upper surface, and terminates 

 superiorly in a dark line, and inferiorly in long white hairs. 



THE WHITE-BELLIED DUIKER 



{CephalopJins lencogaster') 



This is another of the red duikers with dark markings, and 

 is specially characterised by the dull chestnut -rufous body-colour 

 relieved by a blackish dorsal stripe, the rufous face, which is darker 

 in the middle line than elsewhere, the mixed rufous and black crest, 

 the browner nape, and, above all, the white under-parts, a white line 



