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he showed them a coloured picture of the animal they recognized it 
immediately, and said that it lived in the forest and was extraordinarily shy, 
moving away when discovered ina series of long jumps, which often extended 
to nine feet in length. 
Sir Victor Brooke’s specimens of the Royal Antelope, consisting of three 
adult and very perfect individuals, were received by him from Mr. Ussher, 
who, when Governor of the Gold Coast, supplied our Museums with many 
interesting objects of Natural History. 
Our Plate XXIX., which was prepared under Sir Victor Brooke’s direction 
by Mr. Wolf and engraved by Mr. Smit, no doubt from Sir Victor’s own 
specimens, represents both sexes of this interesting species. The same 
drawing also served for the plate which illustrates Sir Victor’s paper in the 
Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings,’ already referred to. 
The National Collection contains a mounted specimen of an adult male of 
this Antelope from Fantee, and a young one in spirits from the same locality, 
the latter presented by Mr. H. F. Blissett. In the same collection is a young 
specimen from Lagos, presented by our much lamented friend the late 
Dr. E. Dobson, and a second young one from the Guinea coast, obtained by 
Pel and received in exchange from the Leyden Museum. Further adult 
examples of this little Antelope would, however, be much valued, and it is 
to be hoped that among the many officers engaged in the new Ashantee 
Expedition to Kumasi some may be found with time and opportunity to get 
fresh specimens of this “ smallest of all the Ruminants.” 
December, 1895. 
