KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 49. NX) 7. 9 



About a buck of Cephalophus abyssinicus hindei, shot V* a t Punda Melia, I made 

 the following short notes. The psalterium is very small. There is no gall-bladder 

 and lobus quadratus of the liver is three-sided. The spleen is triangulär in outline. 

 The colic spiral consists of 1 7a centripetal and 2 centrifugal coils. These facts were 

 also verified on a young specimen. 



This latter had a triangulär papilla incisiva with the point forward, and the 

 base somewhat convex. There were about 15 palatal folds which were distinctly 

 crenulated, except the two or three innermost. The papilloe fungi formes were scat- 

 tered över the whole upper surface of the tongue, except on the middle of the post- 

 erior portion, but they were also found on the lower side near the margin. The 

 papilloe, vallatce amounted to 17—18 on either side arranged in irregular double rows. 



Concerning the Suni Antelope {Nesotragus moschatus) the following notes were 

 made in the field. Papilla incisiva is pear-shaped. Not counting the folds surrounding 

 this papilla and two small, almost rudimentary folds nearest behind the same, there 

 are 12 palatal folds which increase considerably in breadth posteriorly. The crenu- 

 lation of the hind-margin is not much pronounced even on the anterior folds and 

 decreases still more on the posterior ones. 



The tongue is covered with papilloe filiformes among which only a few papilloe 

 fungiformes are scattered. The former increase in size on the posterior portion of 

 the tongue and become wart-like on the central part. 



Five well developed papillce vallatce are arranged in a row on either side of 

 the tongue, aud this row is directly continued into a series of papillai fungiformes. 

 Another series of the latter kind of papillse is directed obliquely towards the base 

 of the tongue and forms an acute angle with the first mentioned series. 



The paunch and the reticulum are comparatively large, and the divisions of 

 the former sharply pronounced. The psalterium is about 50 mm. in length with 

 triplicate arrangement of the folds. 



The liver is transversely situated. Its maximum transversal breadth is 133 

 mm. and the maximum vertical diameter of lobus sinister about 65 mm. A large 

 three-sided lobus quadratus caps the right kidney. The gall-bladder is quite well 

 developed, although it could be suspected that Nesotragus should agree with Cephalo- 

 phus in this respect, but that is not the case. 



The colon has a well developed ansa proximalis and forms lVa centripetal, and 

 2 centrifugal coils in the spiral. 



The kidney is about 372 cm. and has a smooth surface. It has only one 

 longitudinal papilla. 



Some notes on the genital organs of this and some other Antelopes will be 

 found below. 



In Bhaphiceros neumanni the colic spiral is very simple as it does not display 

 more than one centripetal and one and a half centrifugal coils. An ansa proximalis 

 is present but not much developed. 



The viscera of a couple of specimens of Rhynchotragus guentheri wroughtoni shot 



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