CHAPTER VI 



THE HARTEBEESTS AND GNUS 

 By H. A. BRYDEN 



THE CAPE HARTEBEEST 



WE now come to that magnificent series of ante- 

 lopes, in which Africa, far beyond any other region 

 of the world, so greatly abounds. The hartebeests 

 alone number no less than nine species, or sub- 

 species, and are found from the north to the south of 

 the continent ; the Bubal hartebeest representing the 

 most northerly habitat, the Cape hartebeest the 

 extreme south of Africa. The nine hartebeests are, 

 then : the Bubal, the West African, the Tora or 



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