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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Cephalophus doriiB, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, p. 424 ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, p. 77, 1892 ; LydeM-er, Horns and Hoofs, 

 p. 211, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 215, 1899, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 159, 1908 ; Sclater and Thomas, 

 Book of Antelopes, vol. i, p. 171, pi. xx, 1895 ; Leighton, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 1045. 



Cephalophela dorise, Knottnerus-Meyrr, Arch. Natwrgesch. vol. Ixxiii, 

 pt. 1, p. 99, 1907. 



Type of Cephalophela. 



Typical locality Sierra Leoue. 



Size small, height at shoulder about 16 inches. General 

 colour pale rufous, marked with about a dozen broad trans- 

 verse black bands on the back, commencing just behind the 

 shoulder and extending to the root of the tail ; face (with 

 the exception of the blackish nasal region), ears, neck, and 

 shoulders rufous or chestnut ; under-parts rather paler than 

 rufous of back ; legs rufous with broad black patches on 

 outer side of shanks and wholly black pasterns ; large 

 glandular tufts on hocks ; tail rufous mixed with black 

 above, white below ; horns small, seldom exceeding two 

 inches in length. Skull stout, with the nasal region broad, 

 flat, and parallel-sided, shallow lachrymal depressions, 

 and the frontal region not markedly inflated ; horn-cores 

 directed downwards and backwards, forming grooves in the 

 parietals ; the three notches on hind border of palate nearly 

 equal in depth. Basal length of skull 5| inches, width 2f , 

 length from orbit to muzzle 3f inches. 



The range extends along the interior of the west coast of 

 Africa from* Liberia to Sierra Leone. 



55. 12. 24. 294. Imperfect skin. Sierra Leone. Type. 

 From Dr. J. Gould's collection. Purchased, 1855. 



87. 9. 15. 2. Skin, mounted. Du Queah Valley, Liberia ; 

 collected by Dr. J. Biittikofer. Also skeleton. 



Purchased, 1887. 



87. 9. 15. 3. Skin and skeleton, female. Same locality 

 and collector. Same history. 



38. 4. 16. 237. Skin. Sierra Leone. Type of Antilope 

 zebra. Purchased, 1836. 



