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A short Introduction, stating the general plan of this work, was given in the first number of ‘The Book of Antelopes,’ published in August 1894. On completing the work by the issue of the last Part it has been determined by the Authors to explain its origin and object a little...
A short Introduction, stating the general plan of this work, was given in the first number of ‘The Book of Antelopes,’ published in August 1894. On completing the work by the is...
2. Part 228. Fore part of skull of _Madoqua damarensis_, side view } } 28_a_. Upper view of snout of _M. damarensis_ } } 28_b_. Lower view of snout of _M. damarensis_ } } 28_c_. Lower vi...
3. Part 3=Gray=, _Cat. Hodgson Coll._, or _Cat. Mamm. Nepal_, _Hodgson Coll._--Catalogue of the Specimens and Drawings of Mammalia and Birds of Nepal and Thibet. Presented by B. H. Hodgs...
4. Part 4=Swayne=, _Somaliland_, or =Swayne=, _Seventeen Trips to Somaliland_.--Seventeen Trips to Somáliland; a Record of Exploration and Big Game Shooting, 1885 to 1893. By Captain H....
5. Part 5Whether the “variety 1” of the Bubal, established by Gray in 1850 upon a skin without horns or hoofs, said to have been brought by Fraser from Tunis, really belonged to this spe...
6. Part 6“Between Lake Naivasha and the coast _B. cokei_ is very commonly met with. It frequents every kind of locality, and is equally at home in the bush-covered wilderness lying behin...
7. Part 7“These Antelopes possess great tenacity of life, and I have known one to get clean away though struck with two 577 express bullets. On the other hand, if fairly hit in a vital s...
8. Part 8The Antelope described by Buffon, in his ‘Histoire Naturelle,’ as the “Koba”[7] or “Grande Vache Brune” of Senegal, has proved a great stumbling-block to naturalists. This has b...
9. Part 9“They are now confined to one spot in the extreme south of the continent of South Africa, to a portion of the country called the ‘Strand Veldt.’ It is an extensive flat, bordere...
10. Part 10Five years later the experienced African hunter and naturalist, Mr. F. C. Selous, in the same Journal, gives us the following notes on this Antelope:--“In travelling up the cent...
11. Part 11In British East Africa the Brindled Gnu (here called by the Swahilis “_Nyumbo_”) is well-known to the sportsmen who have visited the happy hunting-grounds of Kilimanjaro. Sir Jo...
12. Part 12Treated in this fashion the Gnus in Mr. Blaauw’s possession have succeeded in a wonderful way. From the single pair originally purchased and the two young females first born, no...
13. Part 13Size large, though smaller than _C. sylvicultrix_; form stout. Ears short, broad, and rounded. Colour of head, ears, neck all round as far back as the withers, throat, and a nar...
14. Part 14_Cephalophus nigrifrons_, =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 578, fig. 6 (skull), pl. xlvi. (animal); =id.= Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 27 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 96 (1873); =Peters=,...
15. Part 15In the Cameroons the present species has been met with by the German collectors Preuss and Morgan, as recorded by Herr Matschie, and in Togoland, on the same authority, by Kling...
16. Part 16Besides the immature female obtained by Pel, which forms the type of _Cephalophus niger_, the National Collection possesses skins of an adult female from Fantee and of a young i...
17. Part 17The Blue Duiker, or “Blaauw-bok,” as the colonists of the Cape call it, is one of the oldest known Antelopes of South Africa, and still exists, although nowhere plentiful, in th...
18. Part 18In his important work on the ‘Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa,’ as they existed in 1836 and 1837, Cornwallis Harris figures the “Duiker” as a companion of the Pallah an...
19. Part 19The experienced sportsman Mr. J. D. Inverarity of Bombay writes of this species as follows:--“This is a forest-antelope, living entirely in the jungle. It is not gregarious, but...