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and there attracted Mr. Ward’s special attention, as he had previously seen a 
flat skin somewhat similar, and had called Mr. Chanler’s attention to it before 
his departure on his expedition. Before sending the specimen to its destination 
in the United States National Museum at Washington, Mr. Ward showed it 
to Mr. Walter Rothschild as probably belonging to an undescribed species, 
and shortly afterwards Mr. Rothschild dedicated it to its discoverer in a paper 
published in the second volume of ‘ Novitates Zoologice,’ with the following 
characters :—‘“ This new species belongs to the group of the smaller species 
of Cervicapra, and is nearest to C. bohor, but much the smallest of the genus. 
Perhaps the most striking difference to the ordinary observer is the central 
black stripe running from the nose to between the eyes. Head and neck 
generally orange-buff, as in C. bohor; back, sides of body, upperside of tail, 
and outer sides of limbs warm buffy grey, instead of being of the same colour 
as the neck, as in C. bohor and C. redunca. Belly, underside of tail, and 
inside of limbs down to the knees white. Just below the knee in front is a 
dark brown patch. The ears seem to be longer and narrower in proportion 
than those of C. bohor ; they are sparingly covered on the outside with short 
hair of the colour of the neck, and inside thickly lined with long white hair. 
The horns are much smaller and thinner than those of C. dohor, and much 
more so, of course, than those of C. redunca, both of which are much more 
curved forward. ‘The rings on the horns project much more and are much 
sharper than in my specimens of C. bohor and C. redunca, and are also much 
more regular. ‘They are five in number, besides the basal ring.” 
“The skull is in all its proportions much smaller than that of C. dohor, but 
the palatine is, if anything, longer than in C. dohor. 
“Height about 30 inches, hoofs on.the bottom line 14, fore legs 20, 
tail about 6, ear 64, horns along the curve nearly 6.” 
After the description was made the specimen was unfortunately sent off to 
America before we had time to make a special examination of it. In reply 
to our enquiries, however, Mr. F. W. True, of the U.S. National Museum at 
Washington, has most kindly forwarded to us a large-sized black-and-white 
drawing of the head of this species, from which the accompanying reduction 
(fig. 43, p. 184) has been made by photography. In the absence of a coloured 
figure, this we trust will serve to make Chanler’s Reedbuck, if rediscovered, 
more easily recognizable by future travellers. 
This is, we fear, nearly all that we can say respecting the present Antelope, 
