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CEPHALOPHUS SPADIX, Truz. 
Cephalophus spadiz, True, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. mi. p. 227 (1890) ; id. op. cit. xv. 
p- 473, pl. xxviii. (animal), pl. Ixxix. (skull) (1892) ; Thos. P. Z.S. 1892, p. 418; 
Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 209 (1893); Jackson, in Badm. Libr. Big Game 
Shooting, i. p. 285 (1894). 
Size comparatively large. General colour dusky chestnut-brown without 
spots or bands, and not lighter on the belly. Forehead dusky brown, like 
body; chin and throat pale greyish brown. Hairs of crest chestnut-red at 
the base, and tipped with black: mingled with them are some hairs which 
are dusky throughout, and others pure white. Anterior surfaces of the legs 
somewhat lighter than the posterior surfaces. Tail dusky, except at the tip, 
where there are a few pure white hairs. 
Skull elongate ; muzzle slender ; frontal region strongly convex. 
Horns “directed backwards, and lying below the plane of the upper surface 
of the skull”; those of male 44 inches long ; slender, straight, not thickened 
at the base in front. 
Dimensions :— g. Head and body 38 inches, ear 44, hind foot (hoof to 
hock) 93. 
Skull: basal length, from occipital condyle, 8-5 inches; greatest breadth 4; 
nasals, length 3-7. 
This description has beer. compiled from Mr. True’s two notices and from 
his figures of the animal and its skull, as we have not as yet had any 
opportunity of seeing examples of the species, of which no specimen has 
come to Europe. 
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