782 MR. R. LYDEKKER ON AN [NoV. 12, 



27. Cervicapra arundinum Bodd. 

 c?. 1691, 1692. Masembeti. 



" Native name, Isawy.' 



" I^ot by any means common. 



" Inhabits the open plains, especially the long grass bordering 

 the lakes and vleis. 



"Here the Reed- Buck is unvisnally wild and difficult of 

 approach." 



28. Cephalophus grimmi L. 

 J. 1778,1787. Masembeti. 

 " Native name, ' Nkwenkwi.' 



" Decidedly scarce in the district, only some half-dozen were 

 seen during the trip. 



" The natives say that this country is too damp for it, and it is 

 qviite possible this is one of the causes of its scarcity. 



" Also, according to them, all the Duikers near Beira are of the 

 same remarkable fawn coloration as the two specimens secured. 



" It lies up in the forest, feeding in the open plains at night." 



29. Cephalophus hecki Matsch. 

 (?. 1779. Masembeti. 



This is a pale-coloured animal with a dark median dorsal area, 

 very different from the more southern C. moniicola. It seems to 

 possess all the characters attributed by Prof. Matschie to his 

 C. hecki. 



" Native name, ' Ngudo' or ' Sikwi.' 



" Scarce near Beira, slightly more common at the Masembeti 

 River. 



" Found exclusively in the forest ; in habits is appai^ently 

 similar to its congener in Zukiland and the Knysna." 



3. Note s on Two African Mammals. By E. Lydekker, 



[Received October 20, 1907.] 



(Text-figure 205.) 



The Cameruns Elephant, 



Since my paper on the ears of African Elephants * was published, 

 I have leai-nt that the young living elephant from the hinterland 

 of the South Cameruns upon which Dr. Matschie founded Elephas 

 africanus cydotis is figured in a work by Dr. L. Heck entitled 

 ' Lebende Bilder aus dem Reiche der Tiere,' and published in 

 Berlin in 1899. The ear is well shown in Dr. Heck's plate 

 (No. 146), which is reproduced from a photograph, and appears 

 to have a moi-e regularly curved margin than the ear from Congo 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907, pp. 380 et seq. 



