594 



DR. J, E. GRAY ON THE BUSH-BUCKS. 



[June 20, 



The skins have the fur in a pretty good state, the sheath of the 

 horns being absent. The legs not having been skinned, but dried 

 with the flesh on, are, in one or two cases, broken across at the 

 knees, or rather wrist. The state of the legs and the skins, they 

 having been soaked with a strong solution of corrosive sublimate, 

 which usually makes them fall to pieces like wetted blotting-paper 

 when they are damped, as is the case with several o. the skins we 

 purchased from him, will, I fear, prevent their being stuffed and 

 arranged along with the other preserved specimens ; but they are 

 important additions to this family, of which we have such a com- 

 plete collection in the Museum. 



The species may be thus arranged for easy determination : — 



a. Back with a crest of long black hair. 1 . C. melanoprymnus. 



b. Back with a large yellow stripe. 2. C. sylvicultrix. 



c. Back with a black dorsal streak. 3. C. ogilbii ; 4. C. badius; 



5. O. rufilatus. 



d. Back with a black saddle. 6. C. dorsalis. 



e. Back uniform 



* Black. 7. C. niger. 

 ** Red. 8. C. natalensis ; 9. C. nigrifrons. 

 *** Yellow. 10. C. madoqua ; 11. V. coronatus ; 12. C. 

 wMtfieldii. 

 **** Blackish grey, with pale streak over the eye. 13. C. 

 pygmceus; 14. C. maxwellii; 15. C. me/anorheus. 

 ***** Brown punctulated. 16. C. punctulatus ; 17. C. l, 

 color. 



I- 



fig. 2. 



Skull of Cephalophus melanoprymnus 



1. Cephalophus melanoprymnus. (Plate XLIV.) 



Fur rather long and soft, grizzled by the subterminal white rings 





