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Show 594 DR. j. E. G R A Y O N T H E B U S H - B U C K S . [June 20, The skins have the fur in a pretty good state, the sheath of the horns being absent. The legs not having been skinned, but dried with the flesh on, are, in one or two cases, broken across at the knees, or rather wrist. The state of the legs and the skins, they having been soaked with a strong solution of corrosive sublimate, which usually makes them fall to pieces like wetted blotting-paper when they are damped, as is the case with several of the skins we purchased from him, will, I fear, prevent their being stuffed and arranged along with the other preserved specimens; but they are important additions to this family, of which we have such a complete collection in the Museum. The species may be thus arranged for easy determination :- a. Back with a crest of long black hair. 1. C. melanoprymnus. b. Back with a large yellow stripe. 2. C. sylvicultrix. c. Back with a black dorsal streak. 3. C. ogilbii; 4. C. badius; 5. C. rufilatus. d. Back with a black saddle. 6. C. dorsalis. e. Back uniform * Black. 7. C niger. ** Red. 8. C. natalensis ; 9. C. nigrifrons. *** Yellow. 10. C. madoqua; 11. 0. coronatus; 12. C. whitfieldii. **** Blackish grey, with pale streak over the eye. 13. C. pygmceus; 14. C.maxwellii; 15. C. melanorheus. ***** Brown punctulated. 16. C. punctulatus; 17. C. bicolor. Fig. 2. Skull of Cephalophus melanoprymnus. 1. CEPHALOPHUS MELANOPRYMNUS. (Plate XLIV.) Fur rather long and soft, grizzled by the subterminal white rings |
