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Hab. East Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, at high elevations (Addott). 
We now proceed to consider the smaller Duikers of the section with 
horns slanting backwards. ‘These are generally of a rufous colour, varied 
by more or less intense dark markings on the face and dorsal line, only 
C. dorie, which we place by itself, having the back transversely barred. 
Sir John Willoughby’s volume on ‘East Africa and its Big Game’ gives 
an excellent account of the adventures of himself and a party of friends 
during a shooting-expedition to the hunting-grounds of Kilimanjaro and 
its neighbourhood, and of the great variety and enormous quantity of 
the larger mammals to be met with, a few years ago, in that district. 
In an appendix to the volume, contributed by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, F.Z.S., 
is added a systematic account of the principal mammals met with on the 
plains round Kilimanjaro and on the mountain itself, amongst which we 
find recorded such splendid Antelopes as the Eland, Koodoo, Oryx, Harte- 
beest, Gnu, Pallah, Waterbuck, Reedbuck, and three kinds of Gazelle. 
At the close of the list Mr. Hunter notes the occurrence, high up on 
Kilimanjaro, of a species of Cephalophus “of a dark red colour, much larger 
than the Common Duiker (C. grimmi). A male of this probably new 
Antelope, it is stated, had been killed by Dr. Abbott.” This, so far as 
we know, is the first published mention of the species of which we now 
speak as Abbott’s Duiker. 
Dr. W. L. Abbott, who is thus alluded to, is an American naturalist 
and explorer who passed nearly two years, in 1888 and 1889, collecting 
objects of natural history in the district of Kilimanjaro. On his return to 
America Dr. Abbott presented his whole collection to the National Museum, 
which is under the charge of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. 
Mr. Frederick W. True, the Curator of the Department of Mammals, to whom 
was assigned the task of describing the collection, speaks of it as “one of 
high scientific value.” ‘The specimens,” he says, “have been prepared with 
much care, the skins being almost invariably accompanied by the skulls, and 
furnished with labels giving the locality and date of capture, the sex, and 
other data.” It included altogether about ninety skins and an equal number 
of skulls representing some thirty-eight species. Amongst these was a 
single male example of the present Antelope, no doubt the specimen alluded 
to by Mr. Hunter which is stated to have been killed at a high altitude on 
