78 MAMMALIA. 



This specimen is only known from Colonel Hamilton Smith's 

 description and figure, who informs me that the specimen was 

 not preserved after its death. 



** Knees not tufted. Ears elongate, acute. Horns slender, elon- 

 gate, subangular in front. 



2. CEPHALOPHUS GRIMMIA. The IMPOON or DUYKER. 



Yellowish brown (greyish in winter). Hair yellowish, with 

 black tips. Forehead yellowish bay. Inside of ears, chin, throat, 

 abdomen, inside of fore and hind legs, and under side of tail, 

 white. Feet, streak on the nose and up the legs, and upper part 

 of the tail, black. Ears elongate, nearly as long as the head, 

 acute. Horns black, elongate, slender ; base rugose and suban- 

 gular in front. Skull small, short. Suborbital pit large, deeply 

 concave. The intermaxilla (in three specimens) reaching just 

 up to the edge of the nasals. Nasal hole moderate, sides nearly 

 parallel. 



?Capra sylvestris Africana, N. Grimm, Mis. Cur. Norimb. 1705, 



t. 13. 



Capra Grimmii, Raii Syn. 80. 

 Moschus Grimmia, Linn. S. N. i. 92, from Grimm. 

 Capra Grimmia, Linn. S. N. ed. 10. i. 70, from Grimm. 

 Antilope (Gazella) Grimmia, Licht. Berl. Mag. vi. 177 (1814). 

 Antilope Cervicapra Grimmia, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 



75. 

 Cephalophus Grimmia, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1846, 163; 



Knowsley Menag. 8. t. 1. f. 1, t. 2. f. 1, 2; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1850, 120. 

 Antilope (Cervicapra) mergens, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 181 /; 



Desm. Mam. 463 ; Licht. Saugth. t. 1 1 ; Burchell, Trav. ii. 



187; Fischer, Syn. 468. 635. 



A. Cephalophus mergens, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 849. 

 Cervicapra (Cephalophus) mergens, Gervais, 1. c. 262. 

 Antilope nictitans, Thunb. Mem. Petersb. iii. 312, 1811. 

 Cephalophorus mergens, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 162. 

 Sylvicapra mergens, Ogilby, P. Z. Soc. 1836, 138; Sundevall, 



Pecora, 66. 133. 

 Cephalophus mergens (Duiker), Gray, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 57 ; 



Harris, W. A. S. A. t. 15. f. 2. 

 Tragelaphus mergens, Ruppell, Verz. SencJc. 181. 

 Cephalophorus Burchellii, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 162. 

 Duyker or Duykerbok, Dutch at Cape. 

 Hob. S. Africa. Cape of Good Hope, 



