136 Animal Life 
female as well as in the male) are directed backwards in a more or less continuous line 
with the profile of the nasal bones. The ears also are rounded. In the other group, 
often called the true dwikers*, the horns rise perpendicularly from the skull and form an 
angle with the nasal profile; but the females are usually hornless, and the ears are long 
and pointed. All the duikers have four mamme, and a naked wet nose and 
muftle. They are also marked out from other antelopes by the so-called tear bag 
(anteorbital gland) along the sides of the muzzle in front of the eyes, forming a long naked 
line or sht. 
present. The 
species 1s quite 
never absolutely 
been found in 
tooth which 
tragulmes and 
stated that 
phine traces , 
canine tooth. 
has certainly 
a resemblance 
of deer, a re- 
ears, large head, and 
in construction than 
enough they lack a gall 
Tn the true duikers 
of India the females 
other cephalophines the 
The largest of the 
some respects the most 
worthy, is the yellow- Mi 
(Cephalophus sylvicul- Q&S 
Central Africat I cS 
illustration of this 
as large as a small 
shorter in the limbs. It has a very 
its horns, though they are slghtly 
bly recall in their shape, direction, 
triangular formation the horns of the 
primitive of the buffaloes. The crea- 
resemblances to the capricorns or 
which were the ancestors of the 
We know very little about its hfe 
in Western or Central Africa who 
this article are strongly urged to 
about this rare cephalophine, remark- 
things as being the only large antelope of this group. 
The false hoofs which mark the vestiges of the second and fifth toes are 
molar teeth have low crowns. The tail in a few 
long, but in others is shorter and tufted, though 
short. Throughout the Bovide no trace has ever 
existing or extinct species of an upper canine 
cuts the gum, the tooth which so often in the 
deer develops into a tusk. But it has been 
occasionally in the foetus or young of a cephalo- 
are found of an imperfectly developed upper 
The shape of the head in these little antelopes 
something pig-like about it, recalling very strongly 
to the chevrotains and some of the lower types 
semblance accentuated by the usually rounded 
short legs. Their stomachs are somewhat simpler 
among other Bovide, but curiously 
bladder. 
and in the four-horned antelope 
are hornless, but in most of the 
females carry horns. 
cephalophines, and in 
primitive and note- 
backed duiker 
trix) of West and 
HARVEY'S therefore give an 
DUIKER. 0 O 
animal. It is nearly 
donkey, though much 
cow-like aspect, and 
annulated, irresisti- 
and somewhat 
Anoa, the most 
ture also suggests 
mountain antelopes, 
goats and sheep. 
| history, and travellers 
} i Hf " may chance upon 
ho discover new facts 
able amongst other 
The common duiker (C. grimmi) 
COMMON 
DUIKER. 
differs considerably in appearance from the last-named animal, and is a representative of 
* This, like the names of so many antelopes, is a Cape Dutch term meaning “ diver,”from the habit the antelope 
has of suddenly ducking into thick bush and thus disappearing. It is really the same word as “ ducker” in English. 
+ Formerly the distribution of this animal was thought to be confined to the coast regions of West Africa. 
It is, however, met with almost throughout the Congo basin to the verge of the Uganda Protectorate, and has 
recently been obtained from the northern parts of British Central Africa, 
