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Banded Bush Antelope. 
Bennett, Proc. Comm. Sci. and Corr. Zool. Soc. p. 123, 1832. 
Antilope Doria , Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 121, 1836. 
„ Zebra, Gray. 
I have been induced to give a figure of this rare and really beautiful animal, which is only 
known by two imperfect skins, one in the British Museum, from which my figure was taken, and 
the other in the Collection of the Zoological Society; trusting that travellers to the country 
from whence the specimens were obtained may be induced to inquire, on being made aware of the 
existence of so splendid a species in that locality. Algoa Bay was originally supposed to be the 
habitat of this animal; but the fact of the specimen having been procured along with skins of 
Colobus Ursinns, Ogilby, Colobus Temminckii, Kuhl, and Cercopithecus Diana, will at once fix its 
true locality on the western coast of Africa; as I can affirm, from personal observation on that coast, 
that C. Ursinus and C. Temminckii are by no means uncommon in the neighbourhood of Sierra 
Leone, and that the C. Diana is extremely common at Cape Palmas, Cape Coast Castle, and 
Accra. 
Of this animal my late lamented friend and patron, E. T. Bennett, Esq., gives the following 
description:—“ The length of its body is two feet. The dorsal portion is a'bright rufous fawn, 
which is continued on the shoulders and on the buttocks, but from which the red nearly disappears 
on the under surface, that being pale fawn. Across the whole of the back, commencing between the 
shoulders and passing backwards, a series of broad transverse glossy stripes are seen, which run 
down the sides, becoming narrower towards the belly. The stripes are twelve in number, and are 
preceded and succeeded by a few similar, closer set, and fainter stripes, of a deeper rufous than the 
ground. The broadest of the dark stripes are on the loins, where they are fully an inch in width. 
The commencement of a dark streak is also seen on the skin leading to the outside of the thighs. 
The quality of the fur is rather rigid, and the hairs are adpressed. The dark cross markings which 
ornament the fur are so uncommon among the Mammalia, that they alone will probably furnish a 
sufficient character to distinguish the Mammal in question from any other species inhabiting the 
interior of Africa.” 
