224 Gl * eat and Sma11 Game ° f Africa 



The Banded Duiker {Cephalophus doriie) 

 Mountain Deer of Liberians 

 This little antelope measures about 16 inches at the shoulder; 

 the adult male weighing about 4° or 5° lbs. The general colour 

 is pale rufous, with broad black stripes transverse to the long axis of 

 the body. " Face, ears, neck, and shoulders, rufous or chestnut, except 

 the nasal region, which is blackish. Back from withers to rump pale 

 rufous, conspicuously banded transversely with deep shining back. Under 

 surface from chin to tail pale rufous, slightly paler than the ground colour 

 between the bands. Limbs rufous, but with broad black patches on the 

 outer surfaces of the fore-arms and lower legs, and with the phalanges 

 black all round. Heels with large glandular tufts of black hair on their 

 postero-inferior surfaces. Tail rufous, more or less mixed with black 

 above, white below. Horns short, in the same line as the nasal profile ; 

 in the male barely 2 inches long, in the female less than 1 inch." ' 



The geographical range of this very striking duiker is the interior of 

 the West Coast of Africa from Liberia to Sierra Leone. It was not until 

 1832 that Mr. E. T. Bennett first drew attention to this species, the flat 

 skins of which had then been received from West Africa. M. Robert 

 of Paris described it under the name of Antilopc zebrata, and in 1838 the 

 late Dr. Gray proposed the name of Antilope zebra for this animal, which 

 he had procured from Sierra Leone ; but as in 1836 Ogilby had previously 

 named it after his wife " Doria," the name holds good. 



It was not until fifty years after this animal had been described from 

 flat skins that Mr. Buttikofer, one of the naturalists of the Leyden 

 Museum, first obtained, during the well-known expedition of 1879, perfect 

 specimens of this duiker on the St. Paul's River. Dr. Jentink informs us 



1 From The Book of Antelopes, from which the particulars of this species are mainly derived. 



