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Show 728 ON MAMMALS FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. [Nov. 21, known to us as the Sing-Sing (C. sing-sing), from the vernacular name bestowed upon it by Mr. Bennett in 1832 (see Rep. Comm. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 5). This name was adopted and published by Dr. Gray in 1843 (List M a m m . p. 159), but no description appears to have been attached to the name till 1850, when it was fully described in ' Gleanings from the Knowsley Menagerie,' p. 15. In the meantime, however, the name of Antilope unctuosah&d been given to it by Laurdlard (D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. i. p. 622) in 1847. I think, therefore, that this species will have to be called Cobus unctuosus. The Sing-Sing does well in captivity, and I have seen many specimens of it in the Continental gardens, where it has frequently bred. A certain locality for it is the River Gambia, where the Knowsley specimens were obtained for the Derby Menagerie by Whitfield. 8. COBUS LECHEE. One flat skin, very like those of G. vardoni, but at once recognizable by the black stripes on the front legs and the more widely spread horns. 9. COBUS YARDONI (Livingst.); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 98. Three flat skins and two pairs of horns of this species, concerning which and C. lechee see Mr. Sharpe's notes. 10. CERVICAPRA ARUNDINUM (Bodd.-). A skull in Mr. Crawshay's series must be referred to G. arundinum or a nearly allied form. 11. iEPYCEROS MELAMPUS. In Mr. Crawshay's series are a skull and a skin of this Antelope, which, according to Mr. Sharpe, is often confounded with the Lechee and Vardon's Antelope under the common name " Mswala." 12. HlPPOTRAGUS EQUINUS. Five heads and horns (4 male, 1 female) of the Roan Antelope, which was not included by Mr. Crawshay in his list of the Antelopes of Nyasaland, but certainly occurs in several localities within the Protectorate. Mr. Crawshay also sends a skin of a young male. In the Shire Highlands Mr. B. L. Sclater tells me the Roan is equally common with the Sable Antelope. He saw them both on the Trochila plains between Blantyre and Milangi (see Geogr. Journ. i. p. 414), and Mr. Steblecki, a planter on the Chola plateau, told him both were common there. 13. TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS ROUALEYNI. A flat skin of a fcetal specimen, probably of this species. See P. Z. S. 1893, p. 507. |