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Again, some years later, Whitfield, one of the collectors employed by Lord 
Derby, brought home from the Gambia a living example of an Antelope, 
which was subsequently figured in 1845 for the ‘ Knowsley Menagerie’ by 
Waterhouse Hawkins. ‘This figure was referred by Gray, who drew up the 
letterpress of that splendid work, to the Abyssinian Oribi next described, 
but there can be little doubt that it really belonged to the Gambian form. 
Whitfield gave the native name of this Antelope on the Gambia as “ Gebari.” 
In May 1867 the Zoological Society received as a present from Mr. Charles 
B. Mosse a fine young male of this Oribi, which was eventually the means 
of making the species better known. It was at first referred by Sclater to 
the Cape Oribi, but afterwards considered to be more probably attributable 
to the Abyssinian O. montana. In 1872, however, when the animal was still 
living and quite adult, Sir Victor Brooke, at Sclater’s invitation, took up the 
question, and in a paper read before the Zoological Society, and subsequently 
published in their ‘ Proceedings ’ for that year, showed that neither of these 
determinations was correct, and that the Gambian animal belonged, in his 
opinion, to an unnamed species, which he proposed to call Nanotragus nigri- 
caudatus. Although, like the two preceding species, the Gambian Oribi has 
a black tail, its smaller size seems to be sufficient to distinguish it from its 
congeners. Sir Victor had a water-colour drawing made of this animal by 
Wolf, from which both the figure published in the Zoological Society’s 
‘Proceedings’ and the Plate now given (Plate X XVI.) have been prepared. 
This typical specimen is now in the British Museum, which has likewise two 
other young specimens from West Africa, without further details. 
Mr. Mosse, who brought the type specimen home himself, supplied Sir 
Victor with the information that he had procured it in March 1867, when it 
was only two or three months old, and that it had been caught on the banks 
of the Gambia about 70 or 80 miles from Bathurst, midway between that 
town and Macarthey’s Island. Mr. Mosse had never met with a second 
individual. 
In 1873 and 1876 the Zoological Society received female specimens of 
what were believed to be the same Antelope, but they did not live long in 
the Gardens. 
December, 1895. 
