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and a mixed herd of these two Antelopes, which are said to be frequently 
found together, on the reedy banks. 
Oswell sent home to his friend Capt. Vardon a specimen of the new-found 
Antelope, and Capt. Vardon, as we find on reference to the minute-books 
of the meetings of the Zoological Society of London, exhibited it at the 
scientific meeting of that Society on June 11th, 1850. The species thus 
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Head of Cobus lechee. 
(From Mr. Selous’s mounted specimen in Brit. Mus.) 
became included in Gray’s “‘ Synopsis of Antelopes and Strepsiceres,” which 
was read on the same evening. A coloured plate by Joseph Wolf, attached 
to the Synopsis, was taken from Capt. Vardon’s specimen, which was 
subsequently presented to the British Museum. 
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