34 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Bubalis pj^garga, Sundevall, E. SvensTia Vet.- Ah. Handl. 1844, ]p. 209, 

 1846; Temminck, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, p. 195, 1852; Brehm, 

 Thierleben, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 217, 1880 ; Ward, Becords of 

 Big Game, p. 69, 1892; LydeA-lcer, Horns and Hoofs, p. 202, 

 1893. 



Alcelaphus pygargus, Sclater, List. Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 150, 

 1883; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. 

 pt. ii, p. 273, 1884 ; Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 295, 1889, 

 Nature and Sport in S. Africa, p. 265, 1897 ; Floioer and 

 LydeJiJier, Study of Mammals, p. 335, 1891. 



Damaliscus pygargus, Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, 

 p. 73, pi. viii, 1895 ; LydekJcer, Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 p. 166, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 121, 1908 ; Selous, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 175, 1899 ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 137, 1900 ; Ward, Becords 

 of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 145, 1910. 



Damaliscus pygarga, Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 903. 



BONTEBOK. 



' The type species. 



Typical locality Cape Colony ; the range extending as 

 far north as the Orange Eiver. 



Height at shoulder about 3 feet 4 inches.* General colour 

 rufous fawn, darkening into blackish on crown of head, 

 sides of face and ' neck, flanks, thighs, and fore part of 

 rump, the latter tint also extending down front and outer 

 sides of limbs to knees and hocks, above each of which it 

 forms a garter ; front of face in adult, hind portion of rump, 

 inclusive of root of tail, and knees, hocks, and shanks (with 

 the exception of a dark line down front surface) white ; tail- 

 crest, which reaches hocks, black. Horns sublyrate, without 

 strongly marked basal divergence. 



In immature animals the face-blaze is wholly slatey grey. 

 Good horns measure from 15 to 16f inches in length, with a 

 girth of from 6 to 6J, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 5 to 

 10 inches. Skull-measurements practically the same as in 

 D. albifrons. 



39. 7. 25. 1. Skin, mounted. Cape Colony ; collected 

 by Dr. Smuts. Purchased, 1839. 



39. 7. 25. 2. Skin, mounted, female. Cape Colony \ 

 same collector. Purchased, 1839. 



96. 11. 28. 1. Skin, mounted. Nakhtwicht Farm, Bre- 

 dasdorp, Cape Colony. Presented hy F. C. Selous, Esq., 1896. 



* Nicolls and Eglington state that the height may reach as much 

 as 3 feet 11 inches. 



