SOME REMAKES ON HARVEY’S DUIKER 71 
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SOME REMARKS ON HARVEY’S DUIKER 
(Cephalophus Harveyi) 
By Martin P. Seth-Smith 
During the last few years sportsmen have occasionally 
obtained a specimen of this animal, but, although it is far from 
being a rare species, it is so skulking and nocturnal in its habits 
that it is quite the exception to see one in private collections. 
In size it is practically uniform with the Red or Natal Duiker 
(C. natalensis) with the exception of the markings on the legs 
and face, which in C. harveyi are black, while C . natalensis 
is all over of a chestnut colour with no dark markings. 
In the South African Museum at Cape Town I examined 
two specimens of C. natalensis, and others at the Durban 
Municipal Museum, and in each case the horns were identical 
with our East African variety, C. harveyi. 
The horns are thick at the base and roughly annulated, 
about 3| inches being the length in an adult male. The 
females invariably are horned, the horns being comparatively 
large-based and in adults sharp-pointed, although rarely exceed- 
ing 1| inch in length. 
The earliest specimen of this animal appears to have been 
shot by Sir Robert Harvey on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, and 
since then several more have been killed in East Africa on the 
slopes of Kenia, in the Kikuyu forest country, and also in the 
forests of the Mau. 
It is quite a common species in the forests near Nairobi, 
although rarely seen except very occasionally in the forest 
glades in the evening and very early mornings. It appears to 
use regular runs or tracks in the forest, and, as far as I can see, 
is particular always to deposit its droppings in the track. 
Both at Tring Park and in the Natural History Museum 
at South Kensington are specimens of C. harveyi and 
C. isaaci, but, as an amateur, I quite fail to distinguish any 
difference between the two varieties. 
