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body above and beneath, coarsely grizzled gray, the hairs ringed with 

 black and white. Lips, chin, a line all round the fore-quarters separating 

 the black from the gray, axilla?, groins, fore- and hind-legs, whitish, a rather 

 darker mark running across the outer side of the fore-arm. Skull much 

 longer in proportion to the size of the animal than in C. syhicultor." ' In 

 other respects also it agrees so closely that the two species might have 

 been confused, had the external characteristics not been known. Horns 

 long and tapering, placed in the line of the nasal profile, 6.1 inches long. 



Habitat. — Liberia. Mr. F. X. Stampfli, who visited Liberia in 1884 

 alone, and in 1886 in company with Mr. Biittikofer, has procured this rare 

 animal. He mentions that it was a little below Schieffelinsville, in the 

 triangle between the Junk River, the Du Oueah, and the Farmington Rivers. 



Percy Rendall. 



Abbott's Duiker {Cephalophus spadix) 



This is one of the largest of the duiker group, and is an antelope 

 apparently considerably exceeding in size the common duiker, C. grimmi. 

 Very little is known of it among English sportsmen, and no specimen has 

 yet reached this country. Dr. W. L. Abbott, an American traveller, 

 procured the specimen from which this species was established in 1888-9, 

 during a residence in East Africa. The animal was shot on Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, at a considerable altitude. The general colouring is dark 

 chestnut-brown, the chin and throat paler. The horns of the ram secured 

 by Dr. Abbott measure 4^ inches in length. The only known habitat 

 of this species is, at present, Kilimanjaro in German East Africa ; but it 

 is probable that further research will establish other localities. 



H. A. Bryden. 



1 From The Book of Jntehpei. 



