Mmnmatia. 21 S 



yellow grey, beneath white, a faint lateral streak and several 

 dark cross marks upon the arm ; legs slender, with tufts on 

 the knees, and tufts on the upper anterior end of the posterior 

 shanks; pasterns short. 



Inhabits West coast of Africa. 



A. Quadriscopa, C H. Smith, MS. 



Cfiphalopus Burchellii, (Burchell's Antelope.) Adult male 

 three feet five inches long, and about tv/enty-two inches io 

 height ; head seven inches long ; ears six inches ; the horns 

 five inches, slightly elevated above the plane of the face, 

 approximated, parallel, the superior third part alone bent 

 . slightly outwards, and the points inwards and forwards ; they 

 are black, round, vjbtuse at the point, six to seven wrinkles at 

 base, then striated, and above this again irregularly wrinkled, 

 striated, and annulated ; no external opening of the lachry- 

 mary sinus visible, and suborbital pouch not very evident ; 

 ears" wide, long, and open, marked with three striae ; a space of 

 long bright fulvous hairs upon the forehead; chaffron black ; 

 general colour brownish, rusty above, ashy beneath ; the limbs 

 robust, and fetlock short and dark-coloured. It is possible 

 that this is an old A. Mergens with the horns diseased, because 

 the two are not exactly alike. 



Inhabits CafFraria. 



A. Burchelli, H. Smith, MS. 



Cephalopus Mergens. (The Duiker Bok.) Adult male three 

 feet two or six inches in length, twenty-one and twenty-three 

 jnchej high ; horns four inches long, more distant at base than 

 in the former, more reclining, bending outwards, with a longi- 

 tudinal ridge on the front, traversing four or five annuli of the 

 middle, but not through the wrinkles at the base ; forehead 

 covered with a patch of bright fulvous coarse hair ; ears five 

 inches long, three dark striae within ; dark streak on the chaffron 

 and down the front of the legs ; a suborbital slit on the side 

 of the face ; general colour light brown above, and white 

 beneath ; tail short, black, tipt with white. 



Inhabits South and Western Africa. 



A. Mergens, Blainv. Cap. Merga, Foster. A. Mergens, 

 Desmar. Duiker Bok of the Dutch Colonis:s. 



Cephalopus Ptoox. (The Dodger Antelope.) Male about twenty 

 inches high, and three feet long. More delicately framed than 

 the former ; horns three inches long, with three annuli at base, 

 round, bent outwards reclined, without anterior ridge ; a small 

 pencil of vertial black hairs standing between the horns ; rufous 

 face and forehead ; orbits prominent ; lachrymary sinus a little 

 prolonged, and further towards the nose a puncture, seeming 



