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is blackish. Back from withers to rump pale rufous, conspicuously banded 
transversely with deep shining black. Under surface from chin to anus pale 
rufous, slightly paler than the ground-colour between the bands. Limbs 
rufous, but with broad black patches on the outer surfaces of the forearms 
and lower legs, and with the phalanges black all round. Heels with large 
glandular tufts of black hair on their postero-inferior surfaces. ‘Tail rufous, 
more or less mixed with black above, white below. 
Horns short, in the same line as the nasal profile, in the male barely two 
inches long, conical, tapering, sharply pointed, their greatest basal diameter 
going about 24 times in their length; in the female less than one inch in an 
adult, smoother than in the male, but otherwise similar in character. 
Skull stoutly built. Nasal region broad, flat, parallel-sided. Anteorbital 
fossee very shallow. Frontal region not specially swollen. Horn-cores so 
pressed downwards and backwards as to cause marked depressions behind and 
below them on the parietals. Palate with its three posterior notches about 
level. 
Dimensions :— ¢. Height at withers 16 inches, ear 2°9, hind foot 6°8 
(in a female, rather older, 7:3). 
Skull: basal length 5:8 inches, greatest breadth 2°8, orbit to muzzle 3:4. 
Hab. Interior of West Coast of Africa, from Liberia to Sierra Leone. 
The flat skins of this Antelope, so remarkable for their transverse black 
bands, first attracted the attention of naturalists in 1832, when they were 
brought before the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological 
Society of London by Mr. KE. T. Bennett, then Secretary of the Society. 
Mr. Bennett considered them as belonging ‘“‘ not improbably ” to some species 
of Antelope, to which, however, he did not venture to give a name. They 
were supposed by Gould (then the Zoological Society’s taxidermist), who had 
obtained them, to have been received from Algoa Bay; but there is no doubt 
that this was an error, and that these flat skins, some of which are even now 
occasionally brought to this country, are from Sierra Leone and the adjoining 
districts of Western Africa. 
For some years this subject appears to have slept, but was revived in 1836 
by Mr. Ogilby, who, in the course of some remarks upon the preserved 
specimens of Antelopes in the Zoological Society's Museum, took the oppor- 
tunity of assuring his hearers that the skins described by Mr. Bennett belonged 
