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Show 1903.] A NEW PIGMY ANTELOPE. 193 N eotragus batesi, sp. n. (Plate X IX .) Size nearly half as large again as the Royal Antelope, Ar. pyy-mcnus. The colour darker and slightly more smoky, the feet not so rufous, and the whitish markings of the underparts not so pure. The front of the face, crown of the head, and neck are dark smoky-brown, the back and upperside of tail more rufous 01* bay-coloured. All the fur annulated with dark brown and bright bay. The type of this new species, a male, bears the following notes on the label attached by the collector:-" Efulen, Bulu Country, Kamarun, 1500 ft. above sea. Caught in trap on edge of garden, 15 Sept. 1902." Measurements: head and body 540 mm., tail 65, hind foot (without hoof) 160, ear (inside from notch) 50. Dimensions of skull of male (text-fig. 29):-Greatest length 107 mm.; basal length 95; greatest breadth 51 (below orbits); breadth of brain-case 37*5 ; orbit to points of premaxillae 48; length of nasals (middle line) 33; length of frontals 33; length of parietals 30 ; length of interparietals 13; greatest breadth of Text-fig. 29. Skull of Neotragus batesi. nasals 2 0 ; breadth in narrowest part 9; length of horn (broken) 27, the perfect horn could not be less than 35 mm. in length ; distance between bases of horns 25 ; distance between tips (circa) 3 5 ; length of orbit 23; height of orbit 22 ; length of upper tooth-row 32 ; breadth of palate between pms.1 17, between ms.1 20, between ms.3 21*5. The dimensions of the skull of the female are practically the same as those of the male. The discovery of this new species extends the range of the genus Neotrayus very considerably, for the Royal Antelope (i\r. pygmceus) is found only on the Gold Coast from Liberia to Lagos. 13* |
