350 MB. SCLATEE OS THE AM'ELOPES OF THE GAMUIA. [May 3, 



and naturalists had yet found their way there. The Gambia 

 appeai-ed to be just on the boundary between the densely-wooded 

 district of tlie south and the more open country on the north. 

 The two principal collectors hitherto ha 1 been Whitfield, Lord 

 Derby's agent, who brought home examples of many line species 

 for the Derby Menagerie some fifty years ago ; and in more recent 

 days Dr. Percy Eendall, who had presented the Society vrith. their 

 unique specimen of Cervicapra rcdnnca in 1890. 



From these and other sources we had become aware of the exist- 

 ence of at least 14 species of Antelopes in the Colony, of which the 

 following was a list, with the names of the authorities stated : — 



1. BrBALis MAJOB (Scl. et Thos., Book of Ant. i. p. 11). 



Eendall, Carter. 



2. Damaxiscts KOBEiGrsi (ib. i. p. 59). 



Whitfield, Eendall. 



3. CEPHALOPnrs EtriLATTis (ib. i. p. ] 67). 



Whitfield. 



4. CePHALOPHUS MAXWELII (lb. i. p. 179). 



Whitfield. 



5. Cephalophus coeonatus (ill. i. ]>. 195), 



Whitfield. 



6. OtTEECiA nigeicavdata (ib. ii. p. 23). 



Whitfield, Mosse. 



7. CoBUS unctuosus (ib. ii. p. 105). 



Whitfield, Eendall. 



S. CoBTS KOB (ib. ii. p. 137). 

 Whitfield. 



9. Ceeticapea eedunca (ib. ii. p. 171). 

 Wliitfield, Eendall. 



10. Gazella eufifboks (ib. iii. p. 1G3). 



Whitfield. 



11. Oetx leucoeyx (Pall.). 



Whitfield. 



12. HiPPOTBAGUS EQnxus (Gcoffr.)'. 



Whitfield, Eendall, Llewelyn. 



13. TBAGELAPnrs sceipius (Pall.). 



Whitfield, Eendall, Llewelyn. 



14. Oeeas debeiantjs (Gray). 



Whitfield, Eendall, Llewelyn. (See also Eeed, P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. HJU, pi. xxii.) 



> Cf. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 983. 



