HARBISON'S PIGMY ANTEL OPE 1 8 5 



species is about half as large again as the royal antelope ; from which 

 it is also distinguished by its darker and rather more smoky colouring, 

 the less rufous feet, and the less pure white of the under-parts. The 

 front of the face, the crown of the head, and the neck are dark smoky 

 brown, while the back and the upper surface of the tail tend more to 

 rufous or bay, the individual hairs being everywhere ringed with dark 

 brown and bright bay. 



The home of this elegant little antelope is the Cameroons. 



HARRISON'S PIGMY ANTELOPE 



(Neotragus harrisoni] 



This, the eastern representative of the East, is a native of the 

 Semliki Forest in East Central Africa, whence a skin and skull were 

 brought by Colonel J. J. Harrison in i 906. These were described by 

 Mr. O. Thomas in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for the 

 same year (ser. 7, vol. xviii. p. 149) as Hylarnus harrisoni. Externally 

 this species is very similar to the last, the main difference being the 

 greater intensity of its colouring, so that its rufous areas are darker and 

 the pale areas lighter than in the western animal. The reasons for 

 including this and the preceding species in Neotragus are mentioned 

 on p. 183. 



THE SUNI 



(Neotragus nioscJiatns] 



Suni, KILIMANJARO DISTRICT 



(PLATE vi, fig. 12) 



With this pigmy antelope we come to the first of two species which, 

 while agreeing with the last in the presence of a large unossificd space 

 some distance in advance of the socket of the eye, differ by the longer 

 and more upright horns, which may be half as long as the head, or 

 more, and are strongly and closely ridged. The muzzle is also rela- 

 tively longer than in the three preceding species. The typical sum, 

 which stands from 13 to 14 inches at the shoulder, is specially 

 distinguished by the short and slender horns (of which the maximum 



