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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Horns of Female and Male Blesbuk. 



BLESBOK (Damaliscus albifrons). 

 Nttnni of the Bechuanas. 



Closely allied to the bontebok, but with the white blaze on the 

 forehead divided by a brown line between the eyes, the absence of a 

 white rump-patch, the wholly brown tail, and the yellowish tinge on 

 the rings of the horns. 



Formerly to be numbered by hundreds of thousands, the beautiful 

 blesbok has in the last forty years grown very scarce indeed, being 

 only met with in small numbers on a few Boer farms in the Transvaal 

 and the Orange River Colony. Sixty years ago blesboks often literally 

 darkened the face of the land with their innumerable legions. The 



