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appearance this little antelope appears to be more closely related to the 
open-bush races of the duiker family than to those whose habitat is entirely 
confined to dense jungles. 
The yellow-backed duiker ( Cephalophus sylvicultor) is the largest of the 
cephalophine antelopes, standing thirty -four inches at the shoulder, and 
being of heavy build. In both sexes of this species horns are present, 
which are very small compared with the size of the animal. They grow in 
a line with the plane of the face, and incline slightly backwards. In length 
they seldom exceed six inches. The ears are short and rounded, and the 
coat is very close on the forepart of the body, but longer over the loins. The 
general colour of the head, body and limbs in this species is blackish 
brown; but the muzzle, cheeks, chin, and the extremities of the ears are 
dirty white, whilst from near the root of the tail to the centre of the back 
there runs a broad band of a yellowish colour. The typical yellow-backed 
duiker is an inhabitant of the thickly bushed regions of the west coast 
of Africa, from Sierra Leone to the province of Angola, and probably 
ranges far into the interior of the continent, as three very closely allied 
geographical races of the species have lately been discovered — one 
named Cephalophus coxi , in North-west Rhodesia; another, Cephalophus 
jentinkiy found in Liberia; and a third in the Ituri forest, to which the 
name of Cephalophus ituriensis has been given. 
Abbott’s duiker (C. spadix ), a single adult male specimen of which was 
obtained by Dr W. L. Abbott, an American naturalist, high up on Mount 
Kilimanjaro, is a dark -red species whose nearest allies would seem to be 
Harvey’s duiker of West and Central Africa, and the red bush duiker of 
Natal. It is, however, considerably larger than either of these species, and 
carries much longer horns, as in the only specimen yet obtained these 
were four and a half inches long. 
The red duiker of South-Eastern Africa ( Cephalophus natalensis) was, 
as its name implies, first discovered in Natal, in the neighbourhood of 
Durban, but it is found throughout the thickly bushed coastlands of Natal, 
Zululand and Portuguese East Africa, both to the north and south of the 
Zambesi. It is also met with in Swaziland and the south-eastern portions 
of the Transvaal; but, although it has been stated that it is found in that 
portion of Southern Rhodesia known as Mashonaland, I never myself met 
with it there. In different portions of its range the Natal red duiker shows 
certain variations in colour and size, and several geographical races have 
lately been recognized, such as C. n. amoenus for the Transvaal race, C. n. 
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