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Horns ( ¢ ) set up at an angle above the line of the nasal profile, but not 
so markedly as in C. grimmi, 3 inches long, evenly tapering, their basal 
diameter going nearly 5 times in their length. 
Skull, besides being actually smaller, shorter and broader in proportion 
than in C. grimmi. Distance between orbit and muzzle only just about 
equal to the zygomatic breadth. Anteorbital fossee of medium depth. Mesial 
notch of palate about 4 inch in advance of the lateral ones. 
Dimensions :— ¢. Height at withers 18 inches, ear 3-5, hind foot 8°7. 
Skull: basal length 5:2 inches, greatest breadth 2°98, anterior rim of 
orbit to muzzle 2°91. 
Hab. Highlands of Abyssinia. 
Dr. Edouard Riippell, the renowned zoological explorer of Abyssinia and 
subsequently Director of the Senckenbergian Museum at Frankfort-on-the- 
Main, was the discoverer of this Antelope as well as of many other scarce 
and little-known animals of that wild country. Unfortunately, however, 
Riippell fancied that his Antelope was the same as one previously met with 
by Bruce in Abyssinia, and named in Bruce’s ‘Travels’ “ Madoqua.” ‘This 
was possibly the case, but, as has been recently shown by Thomas, Hamilton 
Smith had already assigned the name Antilope madoka (based on the same 
native name) to another species—Salt’s Antelope, Madoqua saltiana. It 
therefore became necessary to change the name, and Thomas proposed to call 
the present species Cephalophus abyssinicus. 
In his ‘ Neue Wirbelthiere,’ after a careful description of this Antelope, 
Riippell tells us that it is only found in the mountainous provinces of 
Abyssinia, where the vegetation consists principally of bush, and in such parts 
of them as rise from five to eight thousand feet above the sea-level. Riippell 
met with it first at Galla on the mountain-chain west of Massowa. Afterwards 
he found it common on the mountains and valleys of the “ Kulla,” where it is 
always met with in pairs and is difficult to shoot on account of its traversing 
the bush so quickly. Its Abyssinian native name, Ruppell tells us, is 
“*« Madoqua,” which, however, as already stated, has likewise been applied to 
another species—Salt’s Antelope. 
The only more recent traveller, so far as we know, that has met with the 
Abyssinian Duiker in its native wilds is Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., who 
accompanied, as Naturalist, the British Abyssinian Expedition from Massowa 
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