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long survive. Its arrival was chronicled by Fitzinger in his Report to the 
Academy of Sciences of Vienna upon the living animals brought home for 
the Imperial Menagerie at Schonbrunn by Heuglin, and its proposed name 
was given as “Adenota megaceros, Heuglin,” but unfortunately no sort of 
description was added. Nor, so far as we can make out, did Heuglin publish 
any characters of his Adenota megaceros until the appearance of his article 
on the Antelopes and Buffaloes of North-east Africa, which was issued by the 
Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian Academy in 1863. 
Fig. 33. 
Head of Cobus maria, 8. 
(Copied from Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) iv. p. 297.) 
In the meanwhile, however, another explorer of the Nile region had found 
his way home and brought with him heads of both sexes of the same 
Antelope. This was Consul Petherick, who after fifteen years passed in 
these districts * returned in 1859, and brought with him a collection of heads 
and horns of animals, which were acquired by the British Museum through 
Mr. Samuel Stevens, a well-known dealer in objects of Natural History at 
that period. Amongst these were good heads of both sexes of the present 
* See his work ‘ Egypt, Sudan, and the White Nile,’ London, Blackwood & Co., 1861. 
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