1902. 



DR. C. I. FORSYTH MAJOR ON THE OKAPI. 



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countiy (lat. 3° N., long. 28° E.), where, according to his state- 

 ment, chiefs alone have the larivilege of wearing straps or belts 

 made of the skin of what he had regarded as a rare Antelope. 



Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., informed the meeting that the 

 I'eniains of Okapi received by the Congo Museum in Brussels \ 

 which he liad lately had an opportunity of examining, consisted 



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Left side view of skull ot SamotJierium hoissieri Maj., $ , from Samos. 

 g uat. size. 



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Left side view of skull of Okapia liebrechtsi Maj., $ . -g iiat. size. i<'rom Mundalali, 

 on the road from Mawambi to Beui (N.E. frontier of the Independent Congo 

 State). Congo State Museum at Tervueren, nr. Brussels. 



of the skin of a female and the almost complete skeleton of an 



adult male. A reduced photographic view of the skin and a 



1 See * La Belgique Colouiale,' May 4th & 25th, 1902. 



