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Show 828 MR. SCLATER'S JOURNEY TO T H E CAPE. [Nov. 14, designate this species Cercocebus congicus with the following characters:- CERCOCEBUS CONGICUS, sp. nov. (Woodcut, p. 827.) Niger, subtus nudiusculus, cristd extante longa nigra: genarumpihs productis albis : manibus et pedibus cum facie carneis : mento et pectore albis, ventre nigricante, tibiis albis: brachiis nigris, caudci albicante. Long. corp. 2, caudce 3, totd 5 peel. Angl. Hab. Terra Congica. In the new Museum of the Congo Free State at Tervueren, near Brussels, Mr. Sclater had been able to examine the series of specimens of Antelopes of the Congo Territory, which contained examples of the following species :- ]. Gephalophus maxwelli (Lower Congo). 2. Gephalophus grimmi (Lower Congo). 3. Cobus penricei (Matadi). 4. Cervicapra arundinum (Lower Congo). 5. Hippotragus equinus (Lower Congo). 6. Tragelaphus gratus (Lower Congo). 7. Tragelaphus scriptus (Cataracts of Lower Congo). Mr. Sclater had been much gratified with the examination of these specimens, as he had never previously seen a collection of Antelopes from Congoland. He called special attention to the fact of the Waterbuck being Cobus penricii (see ' Book of Antelopes,' ii. p. 113, pl. xxxv.), as this species was previously known only from the southern part of Angola, also to the fact of the Roan Antelope apparently belonging to the southern form Hippotragus equinus typicus. Mr. Sclater gave a short account of his journey to the Cape, from which he had just returned, after an absence of ten weeks. The state of the country caused by the impending war bad prevented him from obtaining so many animals as he had hoped to do. But the keeper whom he had taken with him had returned to this country on the ISth inst. with the following animals, which had been mostly obtained from various friends and correspondents :- 1 White-tailed Gnu (Gonnochcetes gnu), J. *1 Roi Rhebok (Cervicapra fulvo-rufula), <$ . 2 Dusty Ichneumons (Herpestes pulverulentus). 1 Cape Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum). f2 Schalow's Touracous (Turacus schalowi). 4 Cape Turtle Doves (Turtur capicola). 1 Vulturine Eagle (Aquila verreauxi). 1 Tawny Eagle (Aquila ncevioides). * New to the Society's Collection. t This beautiful pair of Touracous were captured at Npata, near Mossamedes Angola, by one of Mr. W . L. Sclater's correspondents. [They have been well figured by Mr. Frohawk in ' The Field ' (vol. xciv. p. 891, Dec. 2nd, 1899).] |