1890.] 



EAST-AFRICAN REED- BUCK. 



605 



In Sir J. Willoughby's ' East Africa and its Big Game,' p. 289 ' . 

 Mr. Hunter alludes to this East-African Reed-buck in the following 

 words : — 



" This Antelope obtained by us differs from the South-African 

 one, and will probably prove to be a new species ; the horns in this 

 are thicker and more bent forward at the tips. It is found in the 

 early morning and evening feeding near the edges of reedy swamps. 



Fig. 2 



Skull of Cervicafra hohor. 

 jl, jugo-lacrymal suture; o, lower edge of infraorbital rim. 



and when disturbed immediately runs into the rushes. It was very 

 common round a large swamp near Mikunduni, in the Masai country, 



^ In the same list (p. 290) Mr. Hunter mentions a Duiker from Kilimanjaro, 

 alt. 10,000 ft., with remarkably dense and long fur. I believe this to be a 

 climatic variety of Cephalophus grivimii. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1890, No. XLI. 41 



