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N. lat., and supplied him with a sketch of the skull which enabled him to 
identify the species. 
We have as yet no records of any Reedbuck having been obtained in 
Somaliland, but when we go further south to British East Africa we have 
good evidence from several trustworthy observers of its existence in that 
country. Itisa difficult question, however, and one which is by no means 
yet decided, whether the East-African Reedbuck is the same as the 
Abyssinian ‘‘ Bohor.” 
Dr. Giinther was the first to interest himself in this subject, and contributed 
a paper on it to the Zoological Society's ‘ Proceedings’ in 1890. ‘Taking the 
skull of an adult male Reedbuck, obtained by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter in 
British East Africa, he pointed out the differences between it and the South- 
African Reedbuck called C. redunca by Gray, which is in fact C. fulvorufula 
of the present work. By the kind permission of the Zoological Society of 
London we are enabled to reproduce the woodcuts of the portions of the 
skull of these two Antelopes upon which Dr. Gtinther based his conclusions, 
and we add thereto Dr. Giinther’s descriptions of these differences. 
“ Cervicapra fulvorufula* (fig. 38, p. 168) is distinguished by its very large 
orbit; in a skull 230 millim. long the vertical dimension of the orbit is 
45 millim.; the eyeball is supported below by a largely expanded concavity of 
the jugal bone, the lower edge of the orbit being particularly sharp and thin, 
merging into the suture between the jugal and lacrymal bones. The cheek 
part of the skull is flat, rather concave, so that the facial portion of the 
cranium between the orbit and the antorbital foramen appears rather com- 
pressed when viewed from above. The ascending ramus of the intermaxillary 
reaches to, or nearly to, the nasal bone. ‘The horns are but slightly divergent 
and very little bent forwards. 
“In Cervicapra bohor (fig. 39, p. 169) the orbit is comparatively smaller; in 
a skull 245 millim. long the vertical diameter of the orbit is only 40 millim. ; 
the jugal bone is much less expanded to form the bottom of the orbital 
cavity; the lower rim of the orbit has two edges, the lower of which does 
not merge into the jugo-lacrymal suture, but runs parallel to it at a distance 
of about 8 millim. The cheek part of the skull is swollen and convex, so 
that the facial portion of the cranium above the molar teeth cannot be termed 
* Dr. Giinther, using the name given by Gray, speaks of this skull as that of C. redunca, but it 
certainly belongs to C. fulvorufula. 
