Many specimens of the “Blau-bok,"” as it is called in the Zoological Society’s Catalogues, have been captured and brought alive to this country and exhibited in the Society’s Gardens. A male was presented by Sir George Grey, then Governor of the Cape, in 1861, and another by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh in 1866. Other specimens of both sexes were received in 1871, 1874, 1882, and subsequent years. In every case, as we are informed by the Head Keeper and Superintendent, the females carried horns as well as the males.
Our figure of this species (Plate XXI. fig. 1) was drawn by Mr. Smit under the superintendence of the late Sir Victor Brooke. We can find no record of from what specimen it was taken.
August, 1895.
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XXII.
Wolf del. Smit lith.
Hanhart imp.
Fig. 1.The Abyssinian Duiker.
CEPHALOPHUS ABYSSINICUS.
Fig. 2. The Crowned Duiker.