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that this animal, the " Mountain Deer," as the Americanised Liberians call 

 it, does not occur in the coast districts, but is found in the mountainous 

 terrain of the interior. 



Mr. Biittikofer tells us in his work of 1890 that he first saw a living- 

 example of this species in the forest near Soforeh Place, and identified it 

 with extreme pleasure as the " Mountain Deer," of which he had heard so 

 much. Here he captured a young one alive and obtained the mother's skull. 



In a second expedition Mr. Biittikofer and his companions procured 

 a full series of examples of this striking species, and he then remarked 

 on the fact that the hairs on the hind edge of the tarsus are remarkably 

 developed, and form a kind of brush. One might here draw attention to a 

 similar appendage that is to be found on the hind leg of the Impala 

 {Mpyceros melampus). p ERCY R ENDALL . 



The Black Duiker [Ccphalophus niger) 



Blls/l Gout OF THE LlBERIAN NEGROES 



This duiker is of medium size, and stands about 18 inches at the 

 shoulder ; the colour of its body is " uniform dark smoky brown or black, 

 becoming darker on the rump and limbs, paler on the throat and chest. 

 Face fulvous, darkening into rich rufous on the crest ; centre of the fore- 

 head sometimes brown or black. Ears black-haired externally, rufous 

 internally. Tail black above, but with a whitish terminal tuft. Skull long 

 and narrow ; forehead swollen, anteorbital fossas rather shallow ; mesial 

 notch of palate about ^ inch in advance of lateral ones." ' 



Temminck mentions that the horns are, in the male, straight and rough 

 at their base, smooth and pointed at their tips, and 3 to 3^ inches in length. 

 In the female barely an inch in length, blunt and rounded. 



1 From The Book of Antehpli, to which the writer is indebted for other particulars. 



