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Bubalis caama (Cuvier). 



As this beautiful animal is at present practically extinct 

 in the Cape Colony, it may bear great interest to remem- 

 ber that in the Leyden Museum there are a stufied adult 

 male from Verreaux' collections made in the named colony, 

 an adult female collected there by Dr. vou Horstock in 

 1829 and a semi-adult male collected in Swellendam by the 

 same Dr. v. Horstock in 1833. 



Damaliscus pygargus (Pallas). 



This species is quite extinct in a feral state, only pre- 

 served on two farms » Nachtwacht" and »Zee-Koe-Vley", 

 in the south-western part of the Cape Colony. lu the Leyden 

 Museum there are preserved more specimens of the precious 

 Bonte Bok than in all other Musea taken together, namely 

 six original specimens : an adult male shot by Mr. Smuts at 

 Swellendam, two adult males and two ditto females col- 

 lected at Uitenhage by Dr. von Horstock between 1828 

 and 1833, besides a young male, too from the Cape Colony. 



Damaliscus albifrons (Burchell). 



The Blesbok although perhaps not yet quite extinct in 

 a wild state, it will be so within a few years: it seems 

 that all herds now are preserved in large fenced enclo- 

 sures in the Steynsburg division of the Cape Colony, in 

 Bechuanaland, in the Oranje Vrijstaat and Transvaal. In 

 our Museum is a fine mounted adult male, very likely 

 from the same origin as our specimens of Bonte Bok. 



Connoc/iaetes gnu (Zimmerman). 



In our Museum there are a mounted adult pair of the 

 Zwart Wildebeest^ from the Cape Colony, very likely from 

 Dr. von Horstock's collections. The species seems to be 

 extinct in a wild state, although it is possible that a few 

 individuals may still be found in the Kalahari and Gor- 

 donia and also in German South-west Africa. Some spe- 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museum, Vol. XXIII. 



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