HARTBEESTS, BLESBOK, AND BONTEBOK 



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yards, and watch the passer-by. ' ' Only occasionally can they be approached within 

 easy range by fair stalking, although they may be killed by watching at their drink- 

 ing holes at night. Mr. Drummond writes that, during a thunderstorm of unusual 

 intensity, " I walked, hardly knowing where I was going, right into a herd of gnu. 

 I did not see them until I was almost among them; but even had my gun not been 

 hopelessly soaked, the fearful storm made self-preservation, and not destruction, 

 one's chief thought. They were standing huddled in a mass, their heads together, 

 and their sterns outward, and they positively only just moved out of my way, much 

 the same as a herd of cattle might have done. ' ' 









HARTBEESTS. 

 (One-sixteenth natural size.) 



HARTBEESTS, BLESBOK, AND BONTEBOK 

 Genus Bubalis 



The well-known hartbeest of South Africa (so called on account of a 

 fancied resemblance to a stag) is the type of a genus which may be taken 



