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species of Cervicapra, although this term has been applied by various authors, 
as will be seen by reference to our lists of synonyms, to three other species 
of the genus. | 
Beyond quoting Buffon’s account of the “ Nagor” and references to the 
authors who had adopted his description, little, if anything more, appears to 
have been added by subsequent writers to our knowledge of Cervicapra 
redunca until 1850, when the ‘Gleanings’ from the Knowsley Menagerie 
were published. In the letterpress to this work Gray appears to have 
confounded the present animal with C. Johor, and perhaps with C. fulvo- 
rufula, but the plate of Hleotragus reduncus (tab. xiii.) seems to represent a 
male and young one of the present species. In the letterpress we are told 
that a “young male” was then living at Knowsley, and, so far as we can 
understand the remarks, had been obtained from the Gambia, where Whitfield 
had given its native name as “ Wonto.” Again, from 1850 to the present 
period there has been an almost complete blank in the history of the West- 
African Reedbuck. No examples of it appear to have been received either 
by the British Museum or at Leyden, and the species seems to have remained 
(even up to the present time) unrepresented in most of the great National 
Collections, except in Paris, where there are two mounted males from Senegal, 
besides other specimens formerly living in the Menagerie, and in the 
Senckenbergian Museum at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where, according to 
Ruppell’s list (Mus. Senck. iii. p. 182), there is also a specimen of it, which 
enabled him to realize the differences between this species and C. bohor. 
It was not until 1890 that the Zoological Society of London received their 
first living specimen of this scarce Antelope. This was a young male 
brought home from the Gambia and presented to the Society, along with a 
young male Harnessed Antelope, by Dr. Percy Rendall, F.Z.S., on the 23rd 
of June of that year. A photograph presented by Dr. Rendall to Sclater, 
which was taken at Bathurst in August 1889, represents the Harnessed 
Antelope, at that time one year old, and the little Nagor, then only four 
months old, being fed together by Dr. Rendall himself. The Nagor, we 
need hardly say, has long ago attained its full stature, and at the time we 
write (January 1897) is, we are glad to say, still living and thriving in the 
Zoological Society’s Antelope-House. 
It stands about 28 inches high at the shoulders, and is above of a nearly 
uniform reddish brown in colour, rather darker on the central line; the 
insides of the ears and the ocular region are white, the face being rather 
more rufous. The belly and inner sides of the limbs are whitish. The large 
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