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The Natal race (Cephalophus grimmi campbellia) was described in 

 i 846 by Dr. J. E. Gray as a distinct species, supposed to come from the 

 west coast. It is described as grizzled with blackish grey. The repre- 

 sentative of the species from the neighbourhood of the Victoria Falls 

 of the Zambesi has been separated by Dr. von Lorenz {Ann. Museum 

 Wien. vol. ix. p. 60, 1895) as C. g. flavescens on account of its yellow 

 colour. 



The Nyasa race of this duiker, of which a mounted specimen has 

 been presented to the British Museum by Captain R. Crawshay, is 

 smaller than the typical race, with more brown on the front of the legs, 

 especially the hind pair, and the whole of the pasterns of this colour, 

 while the belly is whiter. It has been named C. g. ocularis. 



On the west coast the duikerbok ranges as far north as Angola ; 

 while on the east side of the continent, north of the Zambesi, it extends 

 through British East Africa and Somaliland into Abyssinia. 



The Abyssinian duiker is, however, a much smaller animal, generally 

 regarded as specifically distinct, under the name of C. abyssinicus or 

 C.-madoqua, although it may best be classed as a race of the southern 

 species, with the designation C. g. abyssinicus. It is no larger than 

 the next species (that is to say about 16 or 17 inches high), from 

 which it is readily distinguished by its yellowish-fawn colour ; the 

 forehead being chestnut, the nose, the front of the legs, and the fetlocks 

 brown, and the under-parts white. 



The Kavirondo duiker, from the east and north of the Victoria 

 Nyanza, has been separated by Mr. O. Neumann (Sitzungs-Berichte Ges. 

 Naturfor. Berlin, 1905, p. 89) from abyssinicus on account of its darker 

 colour. Although named by its describer Sylvicapra abyssinica nyansce, 

 it may be known as C. g. nyansce. 



Of the Abyssinian race Major Powell-Cotton writes as follows : 



"If the sportsman is indifferent as to sex, he will not find them 

 difficult shooting, as they do not usually go far when disturbed, and 

 soon begin to feed again, if not followed immediately. 



" The upright tuft of hair on the forehead of the females and young 

 males is so prominent that, at a little distance, one can hardly dis- 

 tinguish it from the short horns of the old bucks, placed, as these are, 

 close together ; in them the tuft of hair has almost gone. I shot a 

 female on I4th May 1900 that carried an unborn kid about eight 

 or ten days from birth. A specimen shot on the foot-hills west of the 

 ridge that divides the Lake Tana basin from the low hot country 

 towards the Sudan was the one killed at the lowest elevation. I saw 

 none actually in the plains." 



