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The Uganda Duiker (Cephalophus cequatarialis) 



Another very diminutive duiker, measuring at the rump, its highest 

 part, not more than 13 inches. It resembles almost exactly the black- 

 rumped duiker, save that its stomach is of somewhat darker tint. It has 

 been found by Mr. Scott Elliot on the highlands near Lake Victoria 

 Nyanza at an altitude of 4000 feet. The male carries horns measuring 

 about 1^7 inches ; the female appears to be hornless. 



H. A. Bryden. 



The Blue Duiker or Blue-Buck (Cephalophus monticola) 

 Blaaww-bok of the Boers ; Ipiti of the Zulus. 



This exquisite little antelope, the smallest member of the genus to 

 which it belongs, is of a mouse-gray colour, with a warm tinge of brown 

 on the lower limbs and the face, and paling to light buff on the under parts. 

 It stands about 13 inches at the shoulder, and slightly more at the croup, 

 the ewe being a little larger than the ram ; the muzzle is naked, and the 

 aperture of the sub-orbital gland is in the form of a slit. The horns, 

 present in both sexes, are situated far back on the skull, from which they 

 rise on the plane of the frontals. They are ringed at the base and are so 

 short (2 to 2i inches) as to be scarcely visible above the long tuft of hair 

 which separates them. The ears are of moderate length, and somewhat 

 more rounded than in other members of the genus. The legs are 

 extremely delicate, scarcely thicker than an ordinary lead pencil ; the tail is 

 very short. 



The extreme limits of the range of these antelopes are not, I believe, 

 clearly defined. Blue-buck swarm throughout the southern and eastern 

 portions of the Cape Colony, as also in Natal and Zululand, and are probably 

 numerous in Pondoland. In the central parts of South Africa they are 



