of epee LACKS DULLER. 
CEPHALOPHUS NIGER, Gray. 
[PLATE XIV. Fie. 1.] 
Cephalophus niger, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 165 (1846) ; id. List Ost. B. M. 
p- 57 (1847) ; id. Knowsl. Men. p. 10, pl. vii. (animal) (1850) ; id. P. Z. S. 1850, 
p- 123; id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 84 (1852) ; Gerr. Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 236 
(1862); Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 166 (1869) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 597; 
id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 27 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 96 (1873) ; Jent. Cat. 
Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 182 (1887) ; id. N. L. M. x. p. 20 (1887) 
(Liberia) ; Biittikofer, Reisebild. Liberia, 1. p. 376 (1890) ; Jent. Cat. Mamm. 
Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 162 (1892); Thos. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 425 ; 
Matsch. Mittheil. deutsch. Schutz-gebiet, vi. p. 81 (1893) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, 
p- 212 (1893). 
Antilope pluto, Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. pp. 194,214 (1853); Wagn. Schr. Saiug., Suppl. , 
v. p. 422 (1855). 
Vernacutar Name :—Bush-Goat of Liberian Negroes (Biittikofer). 
Size medium. Colour of body uniform dark smoky brown or black, 
becoming darker on the rump and limbs; paler on the throat and chest. 
Face fulvous, darkening into rich rufous on the crest; the centre of the fore- 
head sometimes brown or black. Ears black haired externally, rufous internally. 
Tail black above, but with a whitish terminal tuft. 
Skull long and narrow. Forehead swollen; anteorbital fosse rather shallow; 
mesial notch of palate about + inch in advance of lateral ones. 
Horns, in male, ‘straight, rough at their base, smooth and pointed at their 
extremity, 3-33 inches in length” (Temminck, /.c.): in female short, barely 
an inch in length, blunt and rounded, not expanded basally. 
