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
_Damalis (?) zebra_, =Gray=, Knowsl. Men. p. 22 (1850); =id.= P.
Z. S. 1850, p. 142; =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 129 (1852); =id.=
Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 45 (1872).
_Cephalophus doria_, =Jent.= N. L. M. vii. p. 270, pl. ix.
(skull, ♀) (1885) (Liberia); =id.= op. cit. x. p. 21, pls. ii.
(animal), iii. (skull, ♂) (1887); =id.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus.
(Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 133 (1887); =Büttikofer=, Reisebild.
Liberia, ii. p. 377, pl. xxix. (animal) (1890); =Jent.= Cat.
Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 164 (1892).
_Cephalophus doriæ_, =Thos.= P. Z. S. 1892, p. 424; =Ward=, Horn
Meas. p. 77 (1892); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 211 (1893).
VERNACULAR NAME:--_Mountain-deer_ of Liberians (_Büttikofer_).
Size small. General colour pale rufous, broadly banded with black.
Face, ears, neck, and shoulders rufous or chestnut, except the nasal
region, which is blackish. Back from withers to rump pale rufous,
conspicuously banded transversely with deep shining black. Under
surface from chin to anus pale rufous, slightly paler than the
ground-colour between the bands. Limbs rufous, but with broad black
patches on the outer surfaces of the forearms and lower legs, and with
the phalanges black all round. Heels with large glandular tufts of
black hair on their postero-inferior surfaces. Tail rufous, more or
less mixed with black above, white below.
Horns short, in the same line as the nasal profile, in the male barely
two inches long, conical, tapering, sharply pointed, their greatest
basal diameter going about 2½ times in their length; in the female less
than one inch in an adult, smoother than in the male, but otherwise
similar in character.
Skull stoutly built. Nasal region broad, flat, parallel-sided.
Anteorbital fossæ very shallow. Frontal region not specially swollen.
Horn-cores so pressed downwards and backwards as to cause marked
depressions behind and below them on the parietals. Palate with its
three posterior notches about level.
Dimensions:--♂. Height at withers 16 inches, ear 2·9, hind foot 6·8 (in
a female, rather older, 7·3).
Skull: basal length 5·8 inches, greatest breadth 2·8, orbit to muzzle
3·4.
_Hab._ Interior of West Coast of Africa, from Liberia to Sierra
Leone.
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