CAMA OR CAPE HARTEBEEST 129 
Horns of Cape Hartebeest. 
The CAMA or CAPE HARTEBEEST (Bubalis cama). 
Kama, Bechuana. Ingana, Makalaka. 
Horn-pedicle greatly elongated ; horns very sharply bent, and form- 
ing a letter V when viewed from the front. Height at shoulder from 
48 to 54 inches. General colour reddish brown, darker than in any of 
the preceding; face (except between the eyes), back of neck, chin, 
shoulders, thighs, and tail black or blackish ; lower portion of buttocks 
with a conspicuous whitish or yellowish blaze. 
Distribution.—Africa southwards of the Limpopo, but extending 
farther northwards along the confines of the Kalahari desert. This 
large and handsome species (the rooi hartebeest) is now nearly ex- 
terminated in the Cape, although still found in the Transvaal. A 
few still linger in the old Bushman country in the north-west of 
Cape Colony. Although practically exterminated in the Orange 
River Colony and in most of the Transvaal (except to the north- 
west), numbers of hartebeest are to be found in the plains and 
open forest of British Bechuanaland and the Bechuanaland Protec- 
torate. In the North Kalahari and the desert-regions about the 
Botletli River big troops are to be met with. This hartebeest is 
remarkably fleet and enduring, and by no means easy to bag. 
Its flesh is palatable, and its brilliant coat much sought after by 
the native tribes. 
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