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10, ii. Pair bred at Knowsley, sold to Prince 

 Demidoff. 



12. Bontebok living in the Antwerp collection in 

 1869. 



13, 14. Two females, purchased by the Zoological 

 Society for ^50 in August, 1871. 



15, 1 6. Stuffed pair in the Artis Museum, 

 Amsterdam. 



17. Specimen in the Vienna Museum. 



1 8-2 1. Four examples or portions thereof in 

 the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfort A/M, obtained 

 by Baron von Ludwig in 1838. 



22. Calvaria and horns from Caffraria, in Royal 

 College of Surgeons' Museum (Hunterian series). 1 , 



Thus is written the history of the bontebok ; let 

 us now return to the blesbok, as it lived in the good 

 days gone for ever. 



A ceaseless succession of undulating greensward, 

 bright with flowers in great patches of colour. The 

 sun rains down heat from a firmament of cloudless 

 blue ; dim in the distance the quivering horizon 

 swims in hazy perspective. Not a hill nor a tree 

 nor even a bush is in sight ; the only landscape, the 

 bare rolling veldt. Yet, though almost featureless, 

 the scene is enlivened by a vast herd of blesbok, 

 intermixed with springbok and a few black wilde- 

 beest ; the brilliant coats of the antelopes are set 



1. Perhaps the somewhat doubtful specimen exhibited at Exeter 

 'Change should be included in this list. 



