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The females are smaller, hornless, and more dull in 

 colour. 



The Guevei Kaior, or smaller Pigmy Antelope, is still 

 less. A young female, which appeared to belong to this 

 variety or species, was in Mr. Bullock's Museum ; the size 

 of the body scarcely exceeded that of a Norway rat ; the 

 head was round, with a short nose, no distinct muzzle, the 

 eyes much nearer the mouth than in the preceding ; the 

 ears round, and the general colour a reddish orange, with a 

 silky gloss, darkest and most vivid on the forehead and 

 back ; the throat, breast, and belly, white ; nose, legs, and 

 groin, buff; the ears, with a dark border, were translucent, 

 white on the inside, and darkish on the back ; there was a 

 small dark spot at the anterior corner of the eye ; two teats 

 were observable, no spurious hoofs, and the tail was about 

 three-quarters of an inch long, and rufous. It stood under 

 a bell glass, and could not be more than eight inches high 

 at the shoulder, the legs not exceeding the thickness of a 

 large goose quill. 



The Gueveis are brought from Guinea, but too delicate 

 to survive a sea voyage ; they are said to be prodigiously 

 active in proportion to their size. Of the Guevei we have 

 compared two specimens, male and female. The figure in 

 the frontispiece of Shaw's Zoology, taken from the Leverian 

 specimen, is the best published ; the others seem to be of 

 the Guevei Kaior, of which we have seen several skins, all 

 of females, and similar to that described. It is not rare 

 in Ashantee. 



Salt's Antelope. (A. Madoka.) Mr. Salt brought 

 from Abyssinia the spoils of a small species allied to the 

 above, and M. de Blainville noticed them under the name of 

 A. Saltiana, from the fragment preserved in the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. The head, deprived of the anterior part 

 of the face, shews the horns with six or seven semi-annuli, 

 the points slightly turned forwards ; they are one inch and 



