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fascia on the forehead and broader on the nose ; fur softer than 

 the Deer, but rough, of lower part of the neck rougher and more 

 lax ; feet and line on fore-legs blackish ; tail black above ; ears 

 rather acute : inhabits Guinea ; agrees in most respects with this 

 species, but most probably is yet to be procured from W. Africa. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



*A skull. South Africa ; Port Natal. From Stockholm Mu- 

 seum. 



4. CEPHALOPHUS BURCHELLII. BURCHELL'S BUSH Boc. 



Fur reddish brown, very slightly black punctated. Face 

 redder. Throat, chest, legs and belly rather greyer brown. Mid- 

 dle of the chin, inner side of the thighs, and under side of the 

 end of the tail, whitish. Short streak up the nose and the front 

 of the legs black. Skull large, elongate. The intermaxillary not 

 reaching to the nasal. The suborbital pit very large, rather 

 shallow. Nasal hole large, swelling out on the side. 



Antilope (Cephalophus) Burchellii, A. Smith, Griffith A. K. iv. , 



v. 844 ? ; Fischer, Syn. 635. 



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

 Cephalophus grimmia var., Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1846, 164 ; 



Knowsley Menag. ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 

 Hab. S.Africa. 



A small male (wants cover of horns ; hair of body rather elon- 

 gate). South Africa. 



Young. South Africa. From M. Verreaux' Collection. 

 A large female (hair shorter, adpressed). S. Africa. 



Inhabiting the district more or less densely covered with un- 

 derwood in Caffreland and the country north of the Orange 

 River. When interrupted in feeding, or pursued by dogs, it 

 springs with considerable activity over such bushes as may stand 

 in its course, and endeavours to plunge into the closest thickets 

 for concealment ; hence they are called Duiker bok. A. Smith. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



*Skull of female. Port Natal. From Stockholm Museum. 



? Skull and horns. S. Africa. Presented by W. Burchell, Esq., 

 LL.D. 



Skull of specimen described Burchell, Travels, ii. 337, and A. 

 Smith, G. A. K. iv., as A. Burchellii. 



This species is easily known from either C. Grimmia or C. 

 Campbellice by its darker colour, and by the under sides and in- 

 side of the legs being nearly of the same colour as the back, and 

 not white, as in those species, and also by the shortness of the in- 



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