C 5 P H.AT.OPU S ■ NAT AUENS IS .
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CEPHALOPUS NATALENSIS.—S m it h .
M amma lia .— P l a t e XXXII.
C. rubro-aurantius, dorso natibusque extern^ brunneo-aurantio-umbratis; capitis cervicisque lateribus,
gutture, abdomineque subochreis. Crists verticali rubro-aurantio nigro-bruimeoque colorati; cornubus
griseo-nigris; oculis brunneis.
Longixudo ab vertice ad basin caudse, 2 ped. 2^ u n c.; caudas 4 unc.
Altitudo ad interscapulium 1 ped. 3£ unc.; ad prymnam 1 ped. 6 unc.
Cephalopus N atalensis, Smith.—South African Quarterly Journal, second series,
vol.i. p. 217; 1834.
C o lo u r .—-The face, the upper surface of the neck, the back, the sides, and
the extremities, reddish orange; the back and outer surface of buttocks
darkened with a shade of brownish orange. The sides of the head and neck,
the throat and the belly a light buff-orange. The lower part of the face
near to the muzzle, the upper surface of the neck, the posterior parts of the
hocks, and the pastern joint of each leg strongly blushed with purplish
brown. The sides of the lower jaw, at, and immediately behind the angles
of the mouth, the space between the rami of the lower jaw, and the edge of
the anterior portion of the upper lip, white. One portion of the long hairs
composing the tuft on the crown of the head, the colour of the body, and
the other, the central portion, dark blackish brown. Tail towards the tip
dusky brown, with variegations arising from an intermixture of some dingy
white hairs, towards the root it is of the colour of the body. The hairs on
the inner surface of the ears dusky, on the outer surface purplish brown.
Eyes dark brown. Muzzle black. Horns and hoofs greyish black.
F orm, &c.—Body slender and elegantly formed ; limbs long and delicate.
Head rather long and much tapered towards the nose; chaffron slightly
arched. Under each eye there is a narrow longitudinal black line devoid of
hair, and with a fissure about an inch and a quarter in length along its centre,
through which in the living animal exudes a limpid glairy fluid. The crown of
the head is surmounted by a dense tuft of rather long rigid hairs which conceals
the horns ; the latter, which are about an inch and a quarter in length, are
inclined slightly backwards, and are rather thick towards their base, but