80 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



XV. CEPHALOPHUS DOESALIS. 



Cephalophus dorsalis, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii, 

 p. 165, 1846, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 146, 1847, Knowsley 

 Menagerie, p. 10, pi. vii, 1850, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 123, 



1871, p. 597, pi. xlv, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 84, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 27, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 96, 1873 ; Temminck, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, pp. 194 and 

 218, 1853 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 594, pi. xlvi ; Murie, 

 ibid. p. 595 ; Fitzinger, Sitzber. Jc. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, 

 pt. 1, p. 166, 1869 ; JentinJc, Cat. Osteol. Ley den Mus. (Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, vol. ix) p. 132, 1887, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. x, p. 20, 

 1888, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (op. cit. vol. xi) p. 162, 1892 ; 

 Buttikofer, Reisebilder Liberia, vol. ii, p. 377, 1890 ; Thomas, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 420 ; Matschie, Mitth. deutsch. Schutz- 

 gebiet, vol. vi, p. 81, 1893; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 211, 

 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 215, 1899, Game 

 Animals of Africa, p. 155, 1908 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of 

 Antelopes, vol. i, p. 155, pi. xix, fig. 1, 1895; Pocock, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1910, p. 871 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 166, 

 1910. 



Antilope (Cephalophus) dorsalis, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, 



Suppl. vol. v, p. 425, 1855. 

 Cephalophus badius, Gray. Cat. Ungulata, Brit. Mus. p. 84, 1852, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 595, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 26, 



1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 94, 1873. 

 Cephalophus breviceps, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 202, pi. xx. 

 Cephalops dorsalis, Knottner us -Meyer, Arch. Naturgesch. vol. Ixxiii, 



pt. 1, p. 99, 1907. 



Typical locality Sierra Leone. 



Type of Cephalops. 



Size medium ; height at withers probably about 16 inches. 

 Ears very short and broad ; general coloiir bright chestnut- 

 rufous, with a dark dorsal stripe, commencing at the nose as 

 a face-blaze, and interrupted only at the crest, which may be 

 rufous ; middle line of face rufous ; eyebrow-streak bright 

 rufous ; crest black, black and rufous, or rufous ; dorsal stripe, 

 which is black on back, sometimes ill-defined and sometimes 

 expanding into a patch on withers, continued down shoulders 

 towards fore -legs ; under-parts, except for a black patch on 

 chest, and hams rufous, like body; fore-legs brown from 

 shoulder downwards, hind-legs from above hocks ; tail black 

 above, white below at and near tip. Skull with very short 

 conical muzzle, deep lachrymal pits, and median palatal 

 notch about one-fifth inch in advance of lateral pair. Length 

 of skull 5^ inches, greatest breadth 3|, length from orbit to 

 muzzle 3 inches. 



