CEPHALOPHiN.i; 91 



XXIII. CEPHALOPHUS NIGER. 



Cephalophus niger, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. i, vol. xviii, p. 165, 

 1846, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 57, 1847, Knowslcy Menagerie, 

 p. 10, pi. vii, 1850, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 123, 1871, p. 597, 

 Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 84, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 27, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 96, 1873 ; 

 Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 236, 1862 ; Fitzinger, 

 Sitzber. Jc. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, p. 166, 1869 ; Jentink, 

 Cat. Osteol. Ley den Mus. (Mus. Paijs-Bas, vol. ix) p. 132, 1887, 

 Notes Leyden Mus. vol. x, p. 20, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. 

 (Mus. Pays-Bas, vol. xi) p. 162, 1892, Biittikofer, Reisebild. 

 Liberia, vol. ii, p. 376, 1890 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 

 p. 425 ; Matschie, Mitth. deutsch. Schutzgebiet, vol. vi, p. 81, 

 1893; LydeJcker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 212, 1893, Great and 

 Small Game of Africa, p. 215, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 160, 1908 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, 

 p. 175, pi. xiv, fig. 1, 1895 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. 

 ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 41, 1897. 



Antilope pluto, Temminck, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, pp. 194 and 214, 

 1853 ; Wagner, Schreber's Saugthiere, Suppl. vol. v, p. 422, 

 1855. 



Cephalopidium nignini, Knottner us -Meyer, Arch. Naturgesch. vol. 

 Ixxiii, pt. 1, p. 99, 1907. 



Type of Cephalopidium. 



Typical locality Guinea. 



Size medium ; shoulder-height about 18 inches. General 

 colour uniform dark smoky brown, darkest on rump and 

 limbs, and palest on throat and chest ; face tawny, darkening 

 into rich rufous on crest, but centre of forehead in some 

 instances brown, or even black ; ears black on back, rufous 

 inside ; tail black above, with whitish terminal tuft. Horns 

 usually from 3 to 3J inches in length, straight, with rough 

 bases ; small ones present in female. Skull long and narrow, 

 with an inflated frontal region, middle notch on hind border 

 of palate slightly deeper than lateral ones, and lachrymal pit 

 relatively shallow ; basal length 6|, maximum width 3f , 

 interval between front border of orbit and muzzle 4J inches. 



The range extends from Liberia to the Gold Coast. 



46. 2. 16. 2. Skull, with horns, and skin, female. 

 Guinea ; collected by Leyden Museum. Type. 



Purchased, 1846. 



92. 4. 23. 4. Skull, with horns, and skin, female. Fanti. 



Purchased, 1892. 



