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observed in any other species of the group. This peculiarity is probably 
caused by some special food to which it is addicted. 
In his ‘ Reisebilder aus Liberia’ Mr. Biittikofer informs us that the Black 
Duiker, known to the Liberians under the name of the Bush-Goat, is one of 
the commonest species of the group in thatrepublic. Like all other members 
of the genus, it is exclusively an inhabitant of the high forests and bushy 
woods, coming out at night into the savannahs and plantations to get its food. 
Mr. Biittikofer repeats his statements as regards the unsavoury character of 
its flesh, and states that even the natives, who are by no means particular, 
in many cases refuse to eat it. 
Besides the immature female obtained by Pel, which forms the type of 
Cephalophus niger, the National Collection possesses skins of an adult female 
from Fantee and of a young individual from the Ankober River in Ashantee, 
both obtained by the native collector Aubinn. 
Our coloured figure of the Black Duiker (Plate XIV. fig. 1) was prepared 
by Mr. Smit under the direction of the late Sir Victor Brooke. It was 
probably taken from the mounted specimen in the British Museum, but of 
this we have no certain record. 
August, 1895. 
