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'CephalopusPerpusilla. (The K'leene-bok ) Male about twenty- 

 •«ix inches long, tvrclvc inches high ; head shorter ; forehead 

 more elevated than the preceding ; a suborbital sack as before;, 

 no lachrymary sinus ; ears short and round ; horns black, 

 conical, slender, reclined, slightly turned inwards, nearly two 

 inches long ; incisor teeth broader ; pasterns longer ; hoofd 

 smaller ; general colour dull brownish-bufF ; beneath white ; 

 perhaps only a variety of the former. 



Inhabits CafFraria. 



A. Coerula, C. H. Smith, MS. A. Pigmsea, DesmaTesf. 

 Kleenebok of the Dutch Colonists, and Noumetje of the Hot- 

 tentots. 



Obs. This is without doubt only a variety of the former. 



Cephalopus Philan/omba, (The Philantomba.) Young speci- 

 men eighteen inches long ; horns very short, half an inch, the 

 points just emerging from the long hair of the forehead ; ears 

 rounded at tip ; long slit on the side of the nose ; general 

 colour dark-brown grey ; legs dark ; pasterns short. 



Inhabits Sierra Leone. 



May be the Guevie Kaior of the Negroes. 



Cephalopus Natalensis, Smith. (Natal Antelope.) Colour 

 of back and upper parts of sides a very deep bright cliesnut ; 

 lower parts of sides, belly, and outer surfaces of extremities, a 

 pale chesnut ; lower portion of face blackish, rest of face and 

 top of head reddish or chesnut brown, darkest along the centre 

 line; crown of head surmounted by a bushy tuft of long hair, 

 partly deep chesnut and partly blacii ; sides of head, sides and 

 under parts orneck, and iuuer surfaces of extremities towards 

 body, tawny or a pale fawn colour ; ears short and broad, the 

 outer sides with a thin sprinkling of fine short black hair, the 

 insides with a pretty close covering of whitish hair; upper parts 

 of neck, pasterns, and hinder parts of houghs, dusky with a dull 

 violet or greyish tinge ; below and in front of each eye a narrow 

 bare stripe of about an inch in length; tail, above, the same 

 colour as back towards base, towards point dusky, the point 

 itself obscure white. Horns nearly concealed by the elongated 

 hair of the font, about an inch and a half long, finely striated 

 longitudinally, the portions towards roots strong, that towards 

 points very slender, and in most of the specimens examined ex- 

 hibited an appearance as if the point of a small horn had been 

 fixed upon a section of a larger one. Hoofs small, blackish, 

 and pointed. Length from nose to base of tail two feet ten 

 inches, length of tail four inches and a half ; length of ears 

 tvro inches and a half; height at shoulder sixteen inches; 



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