2i 6 Great and Small Game of Africa 



The Yellow-Backed Duiker {Cephalophus syhicultor). 



Bush-Goat of the English at Sierra Leone ; 

 Mbimbi in Longobondo 



This animal stands 34 inches at the shoulder. Its size is large, and 

 the form stout and heavy ; ears short, broad and rounded. " Fur very short 

 on tore-quarters, longer on hinder part of back, but in adults worn off 

 and showing the whitish under-fur or naked skin round base of tail. 

 General colour all over, of face, body above and below, and of limbs, 

 dark blackish brown. Crest, orange or rufous ; little developed in youth 

 and wearing off in old age. Muzzle, cheeks and chin, and extreme tips 

 of ears, whitish. Lumbar region with a broad, pale, yellowish mesial 

 stripe running from the middle of the back on to the loins." " Skull, in 

 proportion to size of the animal, delicate, slender, and elongate. Muzzle 

 tapering, not laterally swollen between the premolars and anteorbital fossa', 

 which are of medium depth. Mesial notch of palate surpassing anteriorly 

 the lateral ones by about half-an-inch ; these latter comparatively deep 

 and V-shaped." 1 Horns, 6.4 inches in length — divergent, slender, evenly 

 tapering, lying back in or below the nasal profile. Those of male and 

 female almost identical, save that those of the female are smaller in size. 

 This duiker is found down the West Coast of Africa from Liberia to 

 An S° k - Percy Rendall. 



The Black-Headed or Jentink's Duiker [Cephalophus jentinki) 



This is a large duiker, though smaller than C. syhicultor. It 

 stands 30 inches at the shoulder. " The form stout, ears short, broad, 

 and rounded. Colour of the head, ears, neck all round as tar back 

 ,as the withers, throat, and a narrow sternal line, deep uniform black ; of 



1 These particulars are from Tie Book of Antilopes, by Messrs. Sclater and Oldfield Thomas, 



