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Show 340 DIt. C. I. FORSYTH MAJOR ON [Nov. 18, occurring in different specimens. Also, when pointing out the differences in this respect between the horned Tervueren and the London specimen \ I have taken care to state in a general manner that the latter differs from the former in the predominance of the white over the black in the fore legs, and in the converse condition in the hind legs. The general coloration of the Tervueren skins is dark brown, as opposed to the rich red-brown colour of the specimen in the Natural History Museum, which shows a darker dorsal stripe; the dorsal stripe in the former being lighter than the general coloration. The lateral parts of the face, which are creamy white in the London specimen, are greyish in the mounted individual of Tervueren. In all these features excepting the dorsal stripe, which I have omitted to verify, the newly - arrived skin agrees with the Tervueren specimen. The last mail, which arrived at Antwerp the 4th of this month, brought the skeleton of the specimen to which belongs the skin received a few weeks before. The animals are apparently skinned by the natives on the spot where they are killed, which may be situated at a considerable distance from the nearest post; their invariable custom in skinning the animal seems to be to cut away the generative organs, so that the Belgian officials have to rely on the information of the natives as to the sex of an individual. In the case of the London specimen and the one arrived the other day, there was no information whatever in this respect. The first skin received at Brussels was stated to be that of a female, and, as I had at the time no reason to doubt this statement, I described 2 the adult female of the Okapi as being provided with horns like the male. The skull recently received is that of a quite adult individual; the teeth are well worn and the coronal suture is obliterated. The two bumps rising from the posterior region of the frontals show about the same degree of development as in the larger of the two skulls in the Natural History Museum, but the diffuse swelling of the surrounding region, produced by a greater development of the underlying air-sinuses, makes them appear less prominent. There are no traces whatever of horns. Apart from this, the skull exhibits the same characters which I have pointed out as being of specific value in the horned skull; it is narrower still than the latter, the absence of horns sufficiently accounting for this difference; the maximum of width is situated behind the orbits, therefore further back than in the London skull; the parietal region and the zygoma are shorter; and the maxillary region above the cheek-teeth lower, both absolutely and relatively. The last character appears to acquire more weight from the circumstance that the London skull is not adult, because the vertical 1 ‘ La Belgique Coloniale,' Nov. 9th, 1902, p. 532. 2 ‘ La Belgique Coloniale,' May 25th, 1902, p. 245 ; P. Z. S. 1902, ii. p. 77. |