Sylvicapra grimmia, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 168 (1869).
Grimmia grimmia, Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 138 (1887).
Size probably, in adult animals, about equal to that of C. abyssinicus; form slender. Colour uniformly light yellow all over, except a small streak on the nasal region, the tip of the tail, and the metacarpus and metatarsus, all of which are black. The yellow hairs of the body finely grizzled with black.
Horns, skull, and teeth of adult not yet known. In the type skull, that of a half-grown animal, the anteorbital fossæ are of moderate depth, and the mesial notch on the palate is nearly half an inch in advance of the lateral ones.
Dimensions of type, immature ♂:—Height at withers 16 inches, ear 3, hind foot 8·1.
Hab. West Africa.
Fig. 21.
Skull of Cephalophus coronatus.
(P.Z.S. 1871, p. 599.)