CEPHALOPUS NATALENSIS.— Smith. 
Mammalia. — Plate XXXII. 
C rubro-aurantius, dorso natibusque extern^ brunneo-aurantio-umbratis ; capitis cervicisqueJatenbus, 
' gutture, abdomineque subochreis. Crista verticali rubro-aurantio nigro-brunneoque colorata; cornubus 
griseo-nigris ; oculis brunncis. 
Longitudo ab vertice ad basin caudffl, 2 ped. 2\ unc. ; caudm 4 unc. 
Altitudo ad interscapulium 1 ped. 3 5 line . ; ad prynmam 1 ped. 6 line. 
CEPHALOPUS Natalensis, SmM.-Sonth African Quarterly Journal, second series, 
vol.i. p. 217; 1834. 
Colour. -The face, the upper surface of the neck, the back, the Slde *’ ^ 
the extremities, reddish orange; the back and outer surface of buttocks 
darkened with a shade of brownish orange. The sides of the head and neck 
the throat and the belly a light buff-orange. The lower part of the 
near to the muzzle, the upper surface of the neck, the posterior parts of the 
hocks, and the pastern joint of each leg strongly blushed with purphsh 
brown. The sides of the lower jaw, at, and immediately behind the angles 
of the mouth, the space between the rami of the lower jaw, and the e ge o 
the anterior portion of the upper lip, white. One portion of tne ong airs 
composing the tuft on the crown of the head, the colour of the body, and 
the other, the central portion, dark blackish brown. Tail towards the tip 
dusky brown, with variegations arising from an intermixture of some dingy 
white hairs, towards the root it is of the colour of the body. The hairs on 
the inner surface of the ears dusky, on the outer surface purplish brown. 
Eyes dark brown. Muzzle black. Horns and hoofs greyish black. 
Form, &c.— Body slender and elegantly formed ; limbs long and delicate. 
Head rather long and much tapered towards the nose ; chaftron slightly 
arched Under each eye there is a narrow longitudinal black line devoid of 
hair and with a fissure about an inch and a quarter in length along its centre, 
hraU which in the living animal exudes a limpid glairy fluid. The crown of 
he head is surmounted by a dense tuft of rather long rigid hairs which conceals 
the horns • the latter, which are about an inch and a quarter in length, are 
inclined slightly backwards, and are rather thick towards their base, but 
