The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
_Cephalophus sylvicultrix_, =A. Sm.= S.-Afr. Quart. Journ. ii.
p. 214 (1834); =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 165 (1846);
=id.= Knowsl. Men. p. 10, pi. xxiii. fig. 3 (1850); =id.= P.Z.S.
1850, p. 122; =Turner=, P.Z.S. 1850, p. 170; =Gray=, Cat. Ung.
B. M. p. 83 (1852); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. pp. 194 & 233
(1853); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 236 (1862); =Fitz.=
SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 166 (1869); =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1870, p.
220 (Zool. Soc. Viv.); =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 595, fig. 4
(skull); =id.= Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 26 (1872); =id.= Hand-l.
Rum. B. M. p. 94 (1873); =Scl.= List An. Z. S. (8) p. 147
(1883); =Jent.= N. L. M. x. p. 20 (1887) (Liberia); =Büttik.=
Reisebilder, ii. p. 376 (1890); =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 338
(1891); =Matsch.= MT. deutsch. Schutz-geb. vi. p. 81 (1893)
(Togo).
_Antilope (Grimmia) sylvicultrix_, =Laurill.= Dict. Univ. d’H.
N. i. p. 624 (1839).
_Sylvicapra sylvicultrix_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l.
1844, p. 190 (1846); =id.= ibid. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch.
Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 143; Reprint, p. 67 (1848).
_Cephalolophus sylvicultor_, =Thos.= P. Z. S. 1892, p. 416;
=Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 77 (1892); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 213
(1893).
_Cephalophus punctulatus_, =Gray=, Knowsl. Men. tab. viii. fig.
1 (1850).
_Cephalophus longiceps_, =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 204, fig.
(skull) (Gaboon); =Bocage=, J. Sci. Lisb. ii. p. 220 (1869).
_Terpone longiceps_, =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 592; =id.= Cat.
Rum. B. M. p. 24 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 93 (1873).
_Cephalophus melanoprymnus_, =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 594, pi.
xliv. (animal), figs. 2, 3 (skull) (jr.) (Gaboon).
_Potamotragus melanoprymnus_, =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 25
(1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 94 (1873).
_Cephalophus ruficrista_, =Bocage=, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 744.
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Bush-Goat_ of English at Sierra Leone
(_Afzelius_); _Mbimbi_ in Longobondo (_Pechuel-Loesche_, fide
_Matschie_).
Size large; form stout and heavy. Ears short, broad, and rounded, their
length much less than the distance from eye to muzzle. Fur very short
on the fore-quarters, longer on the hind back, but in adults worn off
and showing the whitish underfur or naked skin round the base of the
tail. General colour all over, of face, body above and below, and of
limbs, dark blackish brown. Crest orange or rufous, little developed in
youth, and again wearing off in old age. Muzzle, cheeks and chin, and
extreme tips of ear whitish. Lumbar region with a broad pale yellowish
mesial stripe running from the middle of the back on to the loins.
In extreme youth the hairs of the posterior half of the body are all
tipped with white, except just along what becomes afterwards the pale
lumbar stripe, where they have long blackish tips, entirely hiding the
white; and the caudal region, afterwards whitish and partly naked, is
clothed with long black hairs.
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