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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



points of the horns diverge. Length 15 to 20 inches. 

 Becords 22] and 23 inches. Height at shoulder 50 to 52 

 inches. Weight about 400 Ib. 



Lichtenstein's Hartebeest is only found from the North- 

 eastern Transvaal 1 and Central Ehodesia to the central 



FIG. 82. Lichtenstein Hartebeest. 



coastal tract on the East, Nyasaland in the centre and 

 Barotseland and North-western Rhodesia on the West. 



Although wary animals, when one is wounded or killed, 

 the others gather round and can then easily be shot. It 

 has a peculiar habit of standing on the tops of termite 

 heaps to look round the country. 



Damaliscus pygargus. Bontebuck. Bontebok. 



The Bontebok is of a rich purplish brown colour, paler 

 on the shoulders and the middle of the back, and darker 

 on the sides and on the upper portions of the limbs. The 



1 1t is doubtful whether any exist in the Transvaal to-day. 



