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Ogilby’s Antelope. 
Antilope Ogilbyi, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 60; and 1842, p. 129. 
Cephalophorus Ogilbyi, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. x. p. 267, 1842. 
This animal belongs to the same division as the A. sylvicultrix of Authors, and is apparently 
equal to that animal in size. As in the species just mentioned, the muzzle is naked, and the horns 
are placed far behind the eye; they are short, straight (or nearly so), and pointed. 
This antelope I believe to be confined to the Island of Fernando Po, where it is extremely 
common, and much esteemed by the natives as an article of food; it is provided with a gland 
between the hoofs, and the female has four teats. 
The fur is short, glossy, and adpressed, of a bright rusty-red colour, darkish on the back, and 
paler on the under parts of the body; a black mark runs along the back very nearly to the tail; 
this mark is broadest towards the shoulders, where its width is about an inch or rather less; over 
the shoulders it becomes obliterated, blending gradually into the brownish hue which covers those 
parts and the neck. The upper surface of the head is of a deep rusty-red colour, shading into 
black at the tip of the muzzle; the sides of the face are yellowish fawn-colour, and the throat is 
whitish. The ears are of moderate size, broad, and somewhat pointed; externally they are 
clothed with closely adpressed small hairs, which are for the most part of a black colour, but in 
front at the base they assume a bright rust tint; this is also the colour of the fringe of longish 
hairs on the anterior margin. About half-way down the fore leg, and on the anterior surface, 
some black hairs are observable, intermixed with those of the ordinary colour; these become more 
numerous lower down, and form a mark which becomes gradually broader, and from the front to 
the hoof it encircles the foot; numerous white hairs are intermixed on this part, and they form a 
white ring to the hoof. The hind feet are coloured in the same way. 
