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Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 141, 1900; Benshaw, Final 

 Nat. Hist. Essays, p. 156, 1907 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, 

 ed. 6, p. 147, 1910 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 900. 



Blesbok. 



Typical locality probably northern Cape Colony. 



Very similar to D. pi/gargus but rufous colour much more 

 predominant owing to the lighter shade of the areas which 

 are dark in the latter species ; the face-blaze divided by a 

 narrow brown bar at the constriction between the eyes ; the 

 ruDip-patch reduced to a small paler area round the root of 

 the tail, and dark colour continued down outer side of lower 

 part of legs, so that hocks and outer side of knees are rufous 

 fawn instead of white. Tlie summits of the rings of the 

 horns differ from those of the bontebok (D. 'pygarrjm) by 

 bein<T yellow, while the horns themselves show a greenish 

 tinf^e. Good horns measure from 16 to 18J inches in length, 

 with a girth of from 5 J to ^\, and a tip to-tip interval of 

 from 7 to 15 J inches. Basal length of skull 11 J inches, 

 maximum width 5^^- inches. 



The range formerly included the northern plains of Cape 

 Colony, the Orange Eiver Colony, the Transvaal, Griqualand 

 West, and Bechuanaland. 



53. 8. 29. 48. Skin, mounted. South Africa ; No. 373, a, 

 of the Zoological Society's Catalogue of 1838. 



Fremntcd hij tlic Zoologiad Hocidy, 1853. 



136. 11. 28. 3. Skin, mounted. iJriefontein, Orange 

 Iviver Colony. Presented hy F. C. Selous, Esq., 1896. 



96. 11. 28. 4. Skin, mounted, female. Same locality. 



Same history. 



6. 2. 22. 1. Head, mounted, young, to show dark face- 

 Ijlaze. Presented hy the Zoological Society, 1906. 



8. 5. 4. 1. Skin, female. North-western (Jrange River 

 Colony. Presented hy IV. F. Tathill, E^ci., 1908. 



8. 12. 8. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin, female. Orange 

 lUver Colony (?). Presented, 1908. 



58. 3. 17. 3. Skull, with horns. S. Africa. 



Purchased, 1858. 



644, c. Frontlet and horns. S. Africa. Purchased. 



48. 7. 13. 6. & 7. Two frontlets and horns. S. Africa. 



Purchased, 1848. 



