Antilope minuta, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 383 (1844).
Sylvicapra pygmæa, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1844, p. 190 (1846); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. p. 142; Reprint, p. 66 (1848).
Cephalophus monticola, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 167 (1846); id. Knowsl.
Men. p. 11 (1850); id. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 124; Turner, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 170; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 168 (1863); Bocage, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 743 (Benguella); Thos. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 427; Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 29, pl. iv. fig. 11 (head) (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 207 (1893); Rendall, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 361 (Transvaal).
Cephalophus pygmæus, Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 87 (1852); Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 209; Gerr. Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 237 (1862); Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 166 (1869); Gray, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 599; id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 28 (1872); Gray, Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 97 (1873); Garrod, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 4 (anatomy); Scl. List Anim. Z. S. (8) p. 146 (1883); Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 153 (1887); id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 164 (1892); Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 301 (1889).
Cephalophus bicolor, Gray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 263, pl. xxiv. (animal); id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 600; id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 29 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 98 (1873).
Cephalophus pygmæus caffer, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 166 (1869).
Cephalophus maxwelli, Crawshay, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 661 (Nyasaland).
Vernacular Names:—Numitji, Blaauw-bokje, and Kleine Blaauw-bok of Dutch colonists (Burchell); Petee of Natal colonists (Selous); Lumsa of Achikundas in Zambesia (Crawshay); Impiti of Zulus; Inhlingwaan of Shangaans (Rendall).
Size and characters of horns as in C. melanorheus. Colour as in C. maxwelli, except that the legs from the elbows and knees downwards are bright rufous.