RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Antilope cervicarpa. CUL-DAR83.54. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 282.
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See former notes
Antilope cervicarpa is that with stripe down front leg & white orbits
Damalis albifrons has square white face
Portax picta ♀ is hornless & has not the great tuft of black hairs beneath white mark on throat - The males & females have common white buttocks on under side.
Catoblepas gorgon it is the female which has dark hairier stripe on neck and flank.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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