214 African Zoology, 



Sub-genus Cephalophus. — Horns in the male only,* small, 

 stravjht, or nearly straight, reclining, placed high on the fore- 

 head, black, wlh wrinkles or annuli; muzzle rathtr develofed^ 

 black; hair of the forehead lengthened into more or less of tuft 

 or spread; a pouch opening between the orbits and nostrils, by a 

 puncture or a slit, independent of the lachrymary sinus, which 

 in some is wanting ; without tnfls on knees, one only excepted; 

 pnsterns short; hinder shanks long; mammce two or four; tail 

 short, tufted; colours generally dark; stature middling or small; 

 reside in covers or bushy plains. Solitary. 



Cephalopus silvicultrix. (The Bush Antelope.) Adult male 

 three feet, and three feet two inches high, five feet long; head 

 ten inches ; horns reclining, four inches long, straight pointed, 

 wrinkled at base, rugous higher up, smooth at tip, and slightly 

 bent outwards ; tail pendulous, Avith a brush ; mammse two ; 

 tuft between horns clear brown; general colour dark-brown 

 above, with fawn-coloured longer hair over the spine and loins, ^ 

 greyish beneath ; legs dark-chesnut; no tufts on knees. 



Inhabits the plains and bushes about the Pongas and Quia 

 in Western Africa. 



A. Silvicultrix, Afzel. Bush Goat o/Sierra Leone. Ant. des 

 Buissons, Desmar. 



Var. ? C. Platous, (Broad-eared Antelope.) Specimen 

 about equal in bulk to the former, but probably lower on the 

 legs ; head long and pointed ; horns not five inches long, re- 

 clining, straight, divergent, irregularly annulated or rugous, 

 pointed, and black; ears very wide, pointed, longer than the 

 horns, whitish within, dun-coloured at the back; eyes large; a 

 black spot on the cheek, marking the opening of the sinus; 

 dark sepia streak on the chaffron, spreading in a coarser tuft 

 about the horns; general colour brown, and fawn-colour above, 

 whitish grey beneath ; no tufts on knees. 



Inhabits the mountains on the west side of Caffraria. 



A. Platous, C. H. Smith, MS. 



Cephalopus quadriscopa. (Four-tufted Antelope.) Adult male 

 about the size of a roebuck, lower on the legs; head round: 

 nose tapering; horns four inches long; reclining, staight, 

 divergent, sharp at tip, with six or seven small annuli at base; 

 ears wide, longer than horns, two black striae inside; neck 

 long; darkish streak down the chafiron ; small lachrymary open- 

 ing beneath the eye, and a naked line from thence towards the 

 nose, indicating a second pouch on the cheek ; forehead covered 

 with longish hair of a dark colour; general colour brownish- 



• In some of the species which are ranked in this Sub-genus the 

 females have also boms. 



