THE DUIKERS 
bradshawi for that found in Nyassaland, and C. n. robertsi and C. n. vassei 
for two races found in the province of Mozambique, though these two 
last-named races will probably eventually prove to be identical. 
The red duiker of Natal passes the day in the seclusion of dense thickets, 
only coming out to feed late in the evening, and, as it lives principally upon 
leaves and berries, it can find most of the food it requires without leaving 
cover. Like all the members of the genus to which it belongs, the red duiker 
of South-East Africa is a very solitary animal, both sexes often living 
alone, though at certain seasons the males and females live in pairs. 
These little antelopes are seldom killed except by driving, when only 
shot guns can be used. There are many near allies of the red duiker of 
South-Eastern Africa inhabiting different parts of the African continent, 
which are not only very similar in appearance to that species, but whose 
habits and mode of life are practically identical. Such are the red duiker 
of the Ituri forest ( Cephalophus centralis ), the black -faced duiker of the 
Cameroons and the Gaboon ( C . nigrifrons ), Alexander’s duiker of the Welle 
valley ( C . claudi ), the ruddy duiker from the Ruwenzori district (C. rubidus ), 
Weyns’s duiker from the neighbourhood of Stanley Falls, on the Congo 
(C. weynsi ), Johnston’s duiker from the Toro district of Uganda (C. 
johnstoni), Isaac’s duiker of the plateau forests of British East Africa (C. 
ignifer ), Harvey’s duiker of the Kilimanjaro district (C. harveyi ), Leopold’s 
duiker of the Congo forests (C. leopoldi), the white-bellied duiker of the 
Gaboon (C. leucogaster ), the bay duiker of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast 
(C. dorsalis ), the chestnut duiker of the Cameroons (C. castaneus) y the 
white-lipped duiker of Angola ( C.leucochilus ), Ogilby’s duiker of the island 
of Fernando Po ( C . ogilbyi ), Brooke’s duiker of Fanti (C. brookei ), Peters’s 
duiker of the Gaboon (C. callipygus ), and the red-flanked duiker of the 
Gambia (C. rufilatus). In all these species or geographical races of small 
bush -duikers both sexes carry horns, and the ears are small and rounded. 
The banded duiker ( Cephalophus dorioe) is distinguished from all its 
congeners by its very striking and peculiar coloration, which is of a pale 
reddish brown, banded in zebra fashion by a number of black vertical 
stripes. In height the banded duiker stands about sixteen inches at the 
shoulder, and both sexes carry horns, which in the male are barely two 
inches in length, whilst in the female they seldom measure as much as 
one inch. This most curiously coloured little antelope is an inhabitant of 
the hilly regions of the interior of Liberia, where it is called by the English- 
speaking American negroes the “ mountain deer.” In its habits and mode 
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