130 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Distribution—South Africa, along the Upper Zambesi from Sesheke to 
the Barotse Valley, southern bank of Chobe River (IF. C. Selous), 
Nyassaland (A. Sharpe). 
eengthon | Circum | qip tp tip, | Habitat Owner: 
19} 62 83 South Africa . | J. Carr Saunders. 
183 ae eon Njoko River . | Capt. A. St. H. Gibbons. 
164 62 74 South Africa . | British Museum. 
16 63 63 South bank of F. C. Selous. 
Chobe River 
Dns 63 62 Chobe River : Do. 
153 6 10 South Africa . | J. Carr Saunders. 
—15 64 64 Zambesi ; | |e. Buckley. 
143 62 5s Chobe River . | F. C. Selous, British Museum. 
13 64 7 N. of Lake Nyassa | S. Pulley. 
124 6 12 Zambesi ; . | W. Van Ness. 
GRAY or VAAL REHBOK or RHEBOK (Pelea capreolus). 
Next to the Klipspringer, the Vaal Rhebok affords the best 
mountain-stalking in South Africa; and, for the same reason that its 
downfall is only wrought by the expenditure of much rough and hard 
climbing, it has hitherto managed to hold its own among the much 
hunted fauna of the country fairly well. Among the wild and 
picturesque mountain ranges of the eastern and southern parts of Cape 
Colony, and in other mountainous regions as far north as the tropic of 
Capricorn, the gray rhebok affords delightful and most interesting 
sport. The appearance of this somewhat stilty-looking antelope does 
not at first sight suggest any wonderful degree of activity. But a 
troop of six or eight startled Vaal Rheboks, stretching themselves with 
wonderful smoothness and speed up the rough sides of a steep 
mountain, will quickly undeceive the novice. The coat of the rhebok— 
light gray, thick, soft, and woolly as a rabbit—is one of its most curious 
features. The flesh is poor eating. 
HEIGHT at shoulder about 30 inches. 
