DUIGENAN

duigenan, patrick (1735-1816), irish lawyer and politician, was the son of a leitrim roman catholic farmer named o'duibhgeannain. through the tuition of the local protestant clergyman, who was interested in the boy, he got a scholarship in 1756 at trinity college, dublin, and subsequently became a fellow. he was called to the irish bar in 1767 and obtained a rich practice. he is remembered, however, mainly as a politician, on account of his opposition to grattan, his support of the union, and his violent antagonism to catholic emancipation. he was elected member for armagh in the first united parliament, and was a well-known character at westminster till he died on the 11th of april 1816. duiker (diver), or duikerbok, the dutch name of a small s. african antelope, scientifically known as _cephalophus grimmi_; the popular name alluding to its habit of diving into and threading its way through thick bush. scientifically the name is extended to include all the members of the african genus _cephalophus_, which, together with the indian chousingha, or four-horned antelope (_tetraceros_), constitutes the subfamily _cephalophinae_. duikers are animals of small or medium size, usually frequenting thick forest. the horns, usually present in both sexes, are small and straight, situated far back on the forehead; and between them rises the crest-like tuft of hair from which the genus takes its scientific name. the common or true duiker (_c. grimmi_) is found in bush-country from the cape to the zambezi and nyasaland, and ranges northward on the west coast to angola. the banded duiker (_c. doriae_) from west africa is golden brown with black transverse bands on the back and loins. _c. sylvicultor_, of west africa, is the largest species, and approaches a donkey in size. (see antelope.) (r. l.*) duilius (or duellius), gaius, roman general during the first carthaginian war and commander in the first roman naval victory. in 260