170 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Neotragus pygmaeus, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii, 

 p. 231, 1846; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 640, pi. liii; 

 Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 339, 1891 ; LydehTcer, 

 Horns and Hoofs, p. 216, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 p. 260, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 183, 1908 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 61, pi. xxix, 1895 ; PococTc, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 867. 



Nanotragus regius, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 12, 1850. 



Nanotragus perpusillus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 126, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. viii, p. 143, 1851, Cat. Ruminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 30, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 98, 

 1873. 



Calotragus spiniger, Temminck, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, pp. 192 and 201, 

 1853. 



Antilope perpusilla, Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 67, 

 1887. 



Cephalophus spiniger, BiittiJcofer, Reisebilder Liberia, vol. ii, p. 379, 

 1890. 



EOYAL ANTELOPE. 



Typical locality Guinea. 



Type of genus and subgenus. 



Size very small ; shoulder-height about 10 inches. 

 General colour bright rufous fawn, or bay, browner on head 

 and fore part of back, deeper on hind-quarters, flanks, and 

 sides of neck ; the rufous forming a narrow band on lower 

 part of throat which divides the white of the chin and lower 

 surface of jaw and throat from that of the remainder of the 

 under-parts; legs rufous, with the exception of a narrow 

 white line down hind surface of front pair and front surface 

 of hind pair ; tail, which measures 2 inches (60 mm.) in 

 length, exclusive of the terminal tuft, bright rufous above, 

 except at the tip, where, as on the under side, it is white. 



Basal length of skull 3J inches (89 mm.), maximum 

 width 1| (47 mm.), distance from orbit to muzzle 1 j inches 

 (44 mm.). Horns very small, less than one inch in length, 

 sharply pointed, and quite devoid of rings. 



67. 4. 12. 432. Immature specimen in spirit. Guinea. 

 Original of Seba's Cervus pusillus guineensis. 



Lidth de Jeude Collection, purchased, 1867. 



73. 6. 22. 11. Skin, immature, mounted, and skull. 

 Fanti. Presented ty H. F. Blissett, Esq., 1873. 



78. 7. 16. 7. Skull, with horns, and skin. Fanti. 



Purchased, 1878. 



