DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF MAMMALS FROM MT. 

 KILIMA-NJARO, EAST AFRICA. 



BY 



Frederick W. True, 



Curator of the Dtpartment of Alammals. 



Some weeks aj?o the National Museum received from Dr. W. L. Abbott 

 the generous gift of a large zoological collection from tlie vicinity of 

 Mt. Kilimanjaro, East Africa. The collection includes about ninety 

 skins of mammals, and an equal number of skulls, representing 

 about thirty-eight species. At least two of the species, an antelope 

 and a tree-coney, are apparently undescribed, and it is my object at the 

 present time to publish a descriptiou of these forms. 



An account of the entire series of mammals, with illustrations of the 

 forms not hitherto depicted, will be prepared at an early day. 



The first species to be described is a brown pygmy-antelope, of the 

 genus Cephalophus, from high altitudes in Mt. Kilimanjaro. 



1. Cephalophus spadix sp. no v. 



(Adult male, No. 18905.) — Size large. Naked rhinariura broadly tri- 

 anguUir, rugose, completely encircling the nostrils. The portion exter- 

 nal to the nostrils is broadest at their inferior-external angle. 



A narrow band bordering the lip is sparsely covered with hairs, 

 whi(;h are not sufficiently numerous to conceal the rugose integument. 



Ears moderate, broad, obtuse ; naked within, except on the margin 

 and along two or three narrow lines. Hoofs of the fore and hind feet 

 equal. Each moiety less than twice as long as broad at the base. 

 False hoofs moderate, slightly less than one-third as long as the true 

 hoofs. 



Tail short, well haired on both sides, except a small triangul'ir area 

 at the base, which is naked. 



Hair short, dense, appressed, and shining. 



Color throughout dusky chestnut-brown, without spots or bands, and 

 not lighter on the belly. Face, chin, and throat pale grayish brown. Hairs 

 of the frontal crest bright chestnut at the base and tip])ed with black. 

 Mingled with them are some hairs which are dusky throughout and 

 others pure white. Anterior surfaces of the legs somewhat lighter than 

 the posterior surfaces. A few white hairs above the hoofs and also on 

 the rump. Tail dusky, except at the tip, wliere the hairs are nearly i)ure 

 white throughout. 



Proceedinga National Lluseuii), Vol. XIII — No. 814. 



