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
In the ‘Gleanings from the Knowsley Menagerie’ are contained two
figures of this animal: plate vi. fig. 3 gives a full-sized figure of
what is apparently a female of this species, and plate ix. represents
the heads of both sexes. Both of these plates are marked as drawn by
Waterhouse Hawkins from specimens living at Knowsley in 1843. Several
specimens of the Coquetoon, as this Antelope is sometimes called,
have also been received by the Zoological Society, but have not
proved to be long-lived in this country. The first recorded specimen
was obtained in 1861, and others were subsequently acquired in 1867,
1879, and 1880. These were all obtained from dealers and had no
definite localities attached to them. But we are able to supply some
indications of the range of this species from museum specimens. In the
British Museum, besides Whitfield’s stuffed specimen from the Gambia
already alluded to, there is the skull of an adult animal from the
same locality obtained by Sir Gilbert Carter, and a young skull, which
has probably been correctly referred to this species from the Niger,
obtained by Surgeon Baikie. In the Leyden Museum, as we find by Dr.
Jentink’s Catalogue, there is an adult female specimen procured at
Dabocrom, in Ashantee, by the collector Pel, and an adult male from
Sierra Leone received from the Bremen Museum. In reference to Pel’s
specimen, Temminck has informed us that this species is rare on the
Guinea coast, but more common in the forests of Sierra Leone. We also
find this species recorded by Herr Matschie as one of the Antelopes met
with by the collectors of the Berlin Museum in the German Protectorate
of Togoland. We may therefore conclude that the Red-flanked Duiker
inhabits the whole coast-land of Western Africa between the British
Settlement of Gambia and the River Niger.
Our figure of this species (Plate XIX. fig. 1) was prepared under Sir
Victor Brooke’s direction, very probably from one of the specimens in
the Liverpool Museum.
_May, 1895._
[Illustration:
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XX.
_Smit del. et lith._ _Hanhart imp._
The Banded Duiker.
CEPHALOPHUS DORIÆ.
_Published by R. H. Porter._]
30. THE BANDED DUIKER.
CEPHALOPHUS DORIÆ (OGILB.).
[PLATE XX.]
_Antilope_ (?), =Benn.= P. Z. S. 1832, p. 122.
_Antilope doria_, =Ogilb.= P. Z. S. 1836, p. 121; =Waterh.= Cat.
Mamm. Mus. Z. S. (2) p. 42 (1838); =Wagn.= Schr. Säug., Suppl.
iv. p. 444 (1844); =Fraser=, Zool. Typ. pl. xviii. (animal)
(1849).
_Antilope zebrata_[14],“=Robert=, Echo du Monde Savant, 1836”;
=Gerv.= Dict. Sci. Nat., Suppl. i. p. 267 (1840); =id.= Hist.
Nat. Mamm. ii. p. 202 (1855).
_Antilope zebra_, =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. i. p. 27 (1838);
=Less.= N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 176 (1842).
_Cephalophorus zebra_, =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 163 (1843).
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