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Show 1890.] EAST-AFRICAN REED-BUCK. 605 A/r1^?1" ?' Wpoughby's ' East Africa and its Big Game,' p. 289 », Mr. Hunter alludes to this East-African Reed-buck in the following words :- & " Thi.s A.1?^10?6 obtained by us differs from the South-African one and will probably prove to be a new species ; the horns in this are thicker and more bent forward at the tips. It is found in the early morning and evening feeding near the edges of reedy swamps, Fig. 2 "nfwfffP Skull of Cervicapra bohor. ft, jugo-lacrymal suture; o, lower edge of infraorbital rim. and when disturbed immediately runs into the rushes. It was very common round a large swamp near Mikunduni, in the Masai countrv, 1 In the same list (p. 290) Mr. Hunter mentions a Duiker from Kilimanjaro, alt. 10,000 ft., with remarkably dense and long fur. I believe this to be a climatic variety of Cephalophus grimmii. PROC ZOOL. Soc-1890, No. XLI. 41 |