BLESBOK 147 
Horns of Female and Male Blesbok. 
The BLESBOK (Damaliscus albifrons). 
Nunni, Bechuana. 
Closely allied to the bontebok, but with the white blaze on the 
forehead divided by a brown line between the eyes, the absence of a 
white rump-patch, the wholly brown tail, and the yellowish rings of 
the. horns ; the horns themselves showing a greenish tinge. 
Formerly to be numbered by hundreds of thousands, the beautiful 
blesbok has in the last fifty years grown very scarce indeed, being 
only met with in small numbers on a few Boer farms in the Transvaal 
and the Orange River Colony. Seventy years ago blesboks often literally 
darkened the face of the land with their innumerable legions. The 
north of the Cape Colony, Griqualand West, the Orange River Colony, 
and the plains of the Western and Southern Transvaal were the true 
