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Show 598 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE BUSH-BUCKS. [Julie 20, Fur rigid, adpressed ; hair of cheeks and neck very short, sooty black ; front part of body greyer. Hab. Guinea. A half-grown male in the Museum from the Leyden Museum. 8. CEPHALOPHUS NATALENSIS. Cephalophus natalensis, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B.M. p. 85, t. 10. f. 1 (skull) ; Smith, Zool. S. Africa, t. 32. Hair rigid, adpressed, of neck and cheeks short, of forehead long, bright red-bay ; beneath pale yellowish ; forehead red. Hab. Port Natal. There are four specimens in the British Museum, two males and two females. Fig. 6. Skull of Cephalophus nigrifrons. 9. C E P H A L O P H U S N I G R I F R O N S . (Plate XLVI.) Head, neck, and body, above and below, covered with broad, tapering, rigid, bright bay hairs ; nose, forehead, and crown between the horns with black rigid hairs, and a few black hairs interspersed on the nape and shoulders ; outside of fore legs blackish ; hoofs narrow, rather elongate. Hab. Gaboon. Somewhat like C. badius in colour, but much brighter, has no dorsal streak; differs from C. natalensis in the black forehead and tail and dark fore legs, and the hair is much more rigid. 10. CEPHALOPHUS MADOG.UA. Cephalophus madoqua, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 82 ; Riippell, Faun. Abyss, t. 7. f. 2. |