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Dimensions :— ¢. Approximate height at withers 18 inches, length of 
hind foot 8:3, of ear 2°8. 
Skull (?): basal length (c.) 6°8, greatest breadth 3°3, anterior edge of 
orbit to muzzle 4:2. 
Hab. West Coast of Africa, from Liberia to the Gold Coast. 
The well-known field-naturalist Pel, one of the many excellent collectors 
employed from time to time by the Leyden Museum, was the discoverer of 
this Duiker, of which he transmitted specimens home from the Guinea coast 
about the year 1843. Shortly aftewards the British Museum acquired one of 
Pel’s specimens from Leyden under the MS. name “ Antilope niger.” This 
was described by Gray in 1846 as the type of a new species, “The Black 
Bush-buck (Cephalophus niger).” Gray added to his description that there 
was then living in the Knowsley Menagerie a ‘“ Bush-buck” which was 
probably of the same species ; and on turning to the pictures in the ‘ Gleanings 
from the Derby Menagerie’ we find what is doubtless the animal referred to, 
figured upon a plate (vu. fig. 2) which is initialed by Waterhouse Hawkins as 
having been drawn in 1846. So far as we know, this is the only individual 
of this Antelope that has ever been brought to Europe alive. 
Although Gray had taken the name which he received with this animal 
from the Leyden Museum and had employed it throughout in his catalogues, 
Temminck, the then Director of that great establishment, when he published 
his ‘ Esquisses Zoologiques sur la Cote de Guiné’ in 1855, was not content to 
adopt it. He considered it “too vague,” as having been already applied to 
other species of Antelopes, and proposed to change it to Cephalophus pluto. 
Temminck informs us that this species is widely distributed on the coast of 
Guinea and is very common in the forests near the Dutch factories in that 
district, particularly in Ashantee, near Chama and Dabacrom. 
In the adjoining republic of Liberia, to the west of the Gold Coast, 
Mr. Biittikofer and his colleagues Sala and Stampfli obtained many specimens 
of this Duiker during their expeditions of 1879 and 1886. Dr. Jentink, in 
cataloguing their results, gives various localities in which it was met with 
—viz. at St. Paul’s River, Schieffelinsville, Junk River, Du Queah River, 
and Farmington River. The Liberian naturalists remark that the flesh of 
this Antelope has a remarkably strong bitter flavour, which they never 
