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and dark dorsal stripe with bright rufous markings on the forehead and 
haunches, which render it easily distinguishable. 
Peters’s Duiker was described in 1876 by the great zoologist after whom 
we have fashioned its English name, from a single specimen obtained by the 
late Professor Dr. Reinhold Buchholz during his sojourn in Western Africa, 
and transmitted to the Berlin Museum. In his notes upon this species 
Peters informs us that the specimen described, which is an adult female, was 
brought to Buchholz alive in Gaboon on the 18th August, 1874, and lived 
two days in captivity. Buchholz stated that the name of this Antelope in 
the Mpongwe dialect was “ Mdindi,” and noted that the iris was brown, the 
muffle blackish, and that the animal was provided with large purse-like 
inguinal glands, like other species of the genus. 
Peters has given a good coloured figure of the specimen in the ‘ Monats- 
bericht’ of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, in which his memoir on | 
Buchholz’s mammals is published, and likewise an excellent figure of its | 
skull of the natural size. : 
We are not aware that any other museum has been fortunate enough to 
obtain specimens of this rare Antelope. 
May, 1895. 
