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land; but it must be explained that our knowledge of the distribution of 
West-African mammals is still woefully deficient. As the same gentleman 
informs us, there is, besides several skins from Togoland, a stuffed example 
in the Berlin Museum sent by Herr Pechuel-Loesche from Longobondo. 
Our illustration of this species on Plate XIII. is copied from a water- 
colour drawing taken in April 1594 by Keulemans, from a fine male specimen 
living in the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam. As this animal was received 
from the Congo in June 1891 (presented by Heer A. de Bloeme) it must be 
necessarily quite adult. Mr. Keulemans’ notes on it are as follows :— 
“‘ Head dark grey ; neck grey, shading into brownish and becoming blackish 
near the shoulders; hairs of neck and head very short and glossy; general 
colour dark brown, with a bluish gloss, getting blacker on the buttocks, where 
the hairs are long; tail short and black; large plaque on the back and 
buttocks and tuft between the horns brownish ochre.” Our second figure 
(Plate XIV. fig. 2), which was prepared by Mr. Smit under Sir Victor Brooke’s 
directions, probably represents a young male of this species; but we do not 
know for certain from what specimen it was taken. The figure of Gray’s 
C. melanoprymnus in the Zoological Society’s ‘Proceedings’ for 1871 
(pl. xliv.) was drawn from a still younger animal, probably of about the same 
stage as the figure of “ C. punctulatus” in the ‘Knowsley Menagerie.’ It 
will be observed how greatly the colour of the back varies in these speci- 
mens of different ages. 
May, 1895. 
