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It is a most peculiarly-marked species, and of a very small size. 

 The hunter mistook it for a young animal, and fed it vnth milk, on 

 which it died ; but when it was examined, the mammae were found 

 dilated with milk, showing that it was approaching full age, and 

 probably had lately produced a fawn. It is the smallest species of 

 the genus, standing only 10 inches high to the top of its head, and 

 weighing not more than three pounds. It is most like Cepkalophus 

 Whitfieldii, figured in the Knowsley Menagerie, from a specimen in 

 the British Museum which was brought from the Gambia by Mr. 

 Whitfield. It differs from that species in the general shade of the 

 brown colour ; and there is no white about that animal, which is so 

 prominent in the Natal specimens. 



Cephalophus bicolor. 



Fur soft, brown, with the rump, the whole of the hind legs, the 

 chin, throat, chest, belly, the inner side of the fore legs, a broad ring 

 over the fore hoofs, and a large spot occupying the front of the face 

 and forehead pure white. The ears blackish, white within. The 

 side of the forehead darker brown. The crumen on the side of the 

 face Uuear, well marked. Horns not present in the female sex. 



Hub. Natal. 



Mr. R. Swinhoe, having shown me a part of the collection of 

 mammals which he formed while residing in the island of Formosa, 

 has kindly allowed me to describe a new specimen of Wild Goat or 

 Goat- Antelope. 



This species agrees in all its characters with the Cambing-outang 

 (Capricornis sumatrana) of Sumatra, and the Capricomis crispa 

 of Japan, but is very distinct from either of them. In colour it more 

 nearly resembles the Japanese species, C. crispa, which has a white 

 face ; but it is easily distmguished from that species, which I only 

 know from a figure and very general description in Schegel's ' Fauna 

 Japonica.' I propose to call it, after its discoverer, 



Capricorxis Swinhoii. 



The fur harsh and crisp, brown, with a narrow streak down the 

 back of the neck ; a spot on the knee and the front of the fore legs 

 below the knee black. The hind legs are bay. The sides of the chin 

 pale yellowish. The underside of the neck yellow-bay — this colour 

 being separated from the darker colour of the upper part of the neck 

 by a ridge of longer, more rigid hairs. The ears are long, brown, 

 paler internally. The horns are short and conical. The skull has a 

 deep and wide concavity in front of the orbits, and a keeled ridge on 

 the cheek. 



Notes on the Beaver in the Zoological Gardens. 



By a. D. Bartlett. 



During one of the heavy storms of wmd and rain that prevailed 



during the last month a large willow-tree was parti v blown down. 



The Umbs and branches of this fallen tree were given to many of 



the animals, and to them proved to be a very acceptable windfall. 



