HARTBEESTS, BLESBOK, AND BONTEBOK 



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Korrigum 



again for some days, but then met with them in large '"numbers and got sev- 

 eral specimens. They seemed to me to have more vitality than any other 

 antelope I ever killed. This species certainly does not extend down to the coast, 

 but we saw them as far as the farthest point we reached (about two hundred 

 and fifty miles) up the river, at a place called Mussa." 



Ranging across Central 

 Africa, from Senegal on the 

 west to Southern Somaliland on the east 

 is the korrigum or Senegal antelope (B. 

 senegalensis} , in which the comparatively- 

 short horns are regularly lyrate, ringed 

 nearly to their tips, and curving backward 

 without any distinct angulation. This 

 species is represented in the right upper 

 corner of the illustration on p. 906. The 

 face is only of moderate length, and the 

 withers (as in the sassaby) are not greatly 

 higher than the rump. The face has a 

 broad black band, extending from the root 

 of the horns to the nose. 



Better known than the last 



Sassa y 



. g ^ near iy_ a iii e d sassaby or 



bastard hartbeest (B. lunata}, widely dis- 



tributed in South Africa as far north as the 



Zambezi. The horns, which seldom ex- 



ceed twelve inches in length, diverge 



widely from their bases, and are then in- 



clined inward and upward, without any 



angulation. The general color of the 



coarse fur is dark purplish red, becoming 



almost black along the back, and with a 



broad blackish mark down the face. In 



height the animal stands about three feet 



ten inches, and has horns ranging from 



thirteen to fifteen and one-half inches in 



length. Mr. Selous states that the sassaby " is never found in hilly country or in 



thick jungle, but frequents the open downs that are quite free from bush, or else 



open forest country in which treeless glades are to be met with. On the Mabani 



flat at the end of the dry season large herds of these animals congregate and 



I have often seen, I am sure, several hundreds of them at once. They are 



without exception the fleetest and most enduring antelopes in South Africa." In 



regard to sassaby hunting, Mr. Drummond observes that " I do not consider them a 



difficult animal to shoot for a good rifle shot, as standing chances at from one hun- 



dred and fifty to two hundred yards are easy to obtain, and they will often allow 



one to walk up to within that distance in full view before even attempting to take to 



HEAD OF THE KORRIGUM OR SENEGAL 



ANTELOPE. 

 (From Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1890.) 



