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Antilope regia, Erxl. Syst. R. A. p. 278 (1777); Gatt. Brev. Zool. i. p. 80 (1780) ; 
Bodd. Elench. An. p. 140 (1785). 
Nanotragus regius, Gray, Knowsl. Men. p. 12 (1850). 
Antilope spiniyera, Temm. Mon. Mamm. i. p. xxx (1827) (descr. nulla); Less. Man. 
Mamm. p. 379 (1827); J. B. Fisch. Syn. Mamm. p. 469 (1829); Gerv. Dict. 
Sci. Nat. Suppl. i. p. 263 (1840) ; Wagn. Schr. Saug. Suppl. iv. p. 457 (1844), 
v. p. 416 (1855); Schinz, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 421 (1845) ; Gieb. Saug. p. 320 
(1854). 
Antilope (Spinigera) spiniger, Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 178 (1842). 
Nanotragus spiniger, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 191 (1846) ; id. 
Ofv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1846, p- 83 (1847) ; id. Pecora, Hornschuch’s Transl., 
Arch. Skand. Beitr. 11. p. 143; Reprint, p. 67 (1848) ; Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. 
pt. 1, p. 164 (1869) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 1384 
(1887) ; id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 164 (1892). 
Calotragus spiniger, Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. pp. 192 & 201 (1853). 
Cephalophus spiniger, Bittikofer, Reisebild. Liberia, i. p. 379 (1890). 
Nanotragus perpusillus, Gray, P.Z.S. 1850, p. 126; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (2) viii. 
p. 143 (1851) ; id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 30 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B. M. 
p. 98 (1873). 
Antilope perpusilla, Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 67. 
VERNACULAR Name :—Sang of the Veys in Liberia (Biittikofer). 
Height about 10 inches at withers. General colour bright rufous fawn, 
browner on head and fore back, richer posteriorly and on sides of neck and 
flanks. Chin and under surface pure sharply defined white. Limbs rufous, 
except a narrow line down the posterior side of the fore and the anterior side 
of the hind ones, which is white. Tail about 24 inches long, without its 
tuft, bright rufous above, except at its tip, where it is pure white, as it is 
also below. 
Skull as described above. Dimensions of an old male example :—Basal 
length (c.) 3:5 inches, greatest breadth 1:9, muzzle to orbit 1°84. 
Horns less than an inch long, sharply pointed, perfectly smooth and 
without ridges. 
Hab. Forests of West Africa from Liberia to Ashantee. 
The literary history and complicated synonymy of the Royal Antelope 
occupied the attention of the late Sir Victor Brooke, when he was engaged 
in the study of the Ruminants, for a considerable period, and the result was 
