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pale rufous; pasterns brown. Tail grizzled greyish above like the back, 
whitish below. 
Skull with the bony palate ending, in the middle line, just in front of the 
level of the back of the last molar. 
Dimensions of a good male example:—Basal length 4 inches, greatest 
breadth 2°3, muzzle to orbit 2°15. 
Horns from 24 to 3 inches long, very slender, their circumference at their 
thickest part only about 1:4 inch. 
Hab. Islets in Zanzibar Harbour and the coast-districts of the mainland 
from Kilimanjaro southwards to Mozambique. 
The discovery of this little Antelope is due to the researches of the Swedish 
naturalist Baron von Diiben, who described it in 1846 from specimens procured 
by himself at Zanzibar, and named it Nesotragus moschatus—“ Nesotragus ” 
from its supposed insular habitat, and “‘ moschatus” from the musky smell of 
its facial glands. Little more was known of this species until 1861, when 
Mr. Layard described it as new under the name Cephalophorus zanzibaricus 
from specimens in the South-African Museum which he had himself obtained 
during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Cantor’ on the island off Zanzibar used 
as a European burial-ground. According to what Mr. Layard was told the 
species had been introduced here by Col. Hamilton, and had multiplied so 
largely that sixteen were shot in an hour by a party of the ship’s officers. 
“The island was covered with low bush, out of which the men beat the 
Antelopes, which ran along the beach like rabbits. Their runs could be 
traced in all directions through the bushes.” 
In 1864 Sclater recorded this Antelope among the mammals obtained by 
Capt. Speke during his celebrated expedition into Kast Africa. Speke’s 
specimen, an adult male, obtained at Zanzibar, is now in the gallery of the 
British Museum, and is, we believe, the original of Wolf’s water-colour drawing 
(now in the possession of Sir Douglas Brooke), whence Mr. Smit’s figure 
(Plate XXVIII.) was engraved under Sir Victor Brooke’s superintendence. 
Sir John Kirk, so long known as H.B.M. Consul-General at Zanzibar, who 
furnished a set of skins and skulls of this Antelope to the National Collection, 
has most kindly supplied us with the following notes on it :— 
“The small Antelope (Nesotragus moschatus) which you ask about was 
