Ogilby's Antelope. 



Antilope Ogilbyi, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 60; and 1842, p. 129. 

 Cephalophorus Ogilbyi, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. x. p. 267, 1842. 



Tins animal belongs to the same division as the A. sylvicultrix of Authors, and is apparently 

 equal to that animal in size. As in the species just mentioned, the muzzle is naked, and the horns 

 are placed far behind the eye ; they are short, straight (or nearly so), and pointed. 



This antelope I believe to be confined to the Island of Fernando Po, where it is extremely 

 common, and much esteemed by the natives as an article of food; it is provided with a gland 

 between the hoofs, and the female has four teats. 



The fur is short, glossy, and adpressed, of a bright rusty-red colour, darkish on the back, and 

 paler on the under parts of the body ; a black mark runs along the back very nearly to the tail ; 

 this mark is broadest towards the shoulders, where its width is about an inch or rather less ; over 

 the shoulders it becomes obliterated, blending gradually into the brownish hue which covers those 

 parts and the neck. The upper surface of the head is of a deep rusty-red colour, shading into 

 black at the tip of the muzzle ; the sides of the face are yellowish fawn-colour, and the throat is 

 whitish. The ears are of moderate size, broad, and somewhat pointed ; externally they are 

 clothed with closely adpressed small hairs, which are for the most part of a black colour, but in 

 front at the base they assume a bright rust tint ; this is also the colour of the fringe of longish 

 hairs on the anterior margin. About half-way down the fore leg, and on the anterior surface, 

 some black hairs are observable, intermixed with those of the ordinary colour ; these become more 

 numerous lower down, and form a mark which becomes gradually broader, and from the front to 

 the hoof it encircles the foot ; numerous white hairs are intermixed on this part, and they form a 

 white ring to the hoof. The hind feet are coloured in the same way. 



