Cephalophus maxwelli, Noack, Zool. JB., Syst. iv. p. 121 (1889) (Banana, Congo) (nec H. Sm.).
Subspecies b. C. melanorheus sundevalli.
Sylvicapra pygmæa, var., Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1845, p. 321 (1847); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 313; Reprint, p. 133 (1848).
Cephalophus pygmæus sundevalli, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 166 (1869) (ex Sund.).
Vernacular Name:—“Nshiri” at Dongila, Gaboon (Buchholz).
Similar in all respects to C. maxwelli, except that it is rather smaller, and that the brown colour of the back darkens to black on and at each side of the base of the tail, below which there is an abrupt change to white on the backs of the hams. Female with horns.
Horns short, but almost as long in the female as in the male, placed in the same straight line as the nasal profile, slightly incurved: those of male about 1½ inch long, their basal diameter going about 2½ times in the length; those of female about 1¼ inch long, basal diameter going about 3 times in the length.
Dimensions:—Height much as in C. monticola, length of ear 1·6 inch, hind foot 6·1.
Skull (♂): basal length (c.) 4·6 inches, greatest breadth 2·4, anterior edge of orbit to muzzle 2·5.
Hab. Africa south and east of the Niger, extending from the Cameroons to Angola and eastwards to the coast opposite Zanzibar.