BLESBOK 



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north of the Cape Colony, Griqualand West, the Orange River Colony, 

 and the plains of the Western and Southern Transvaal were the true 

 home of this beautiful antelope. Gordon Gumming wrote of a sight 

 he beheld in the blesbok country in 1 848. " The plains," he says, 

 " exhibited one purple mass of graceful blesboks, which extended with- 

 out a break as far as my eyes could strain ; the depth of their vast 

 legions covered a breadth of about six hundred yards." 

 Distribution. Northern plains of Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, 

 Transvaal, and Bechuanaland ; now nearly exterminated. 



Length on 

 front 

 curve. 



-18 



Circum- 

 ference. 



Tip to 

 Tip. 



log 



Locality. 



South Africa . 

 Orange River Colony 

 Transvaal 



Do. . . 

 Orange River Colony 

 Do. 



Owner. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 

 . F. R. N. Findlay. 

 . J. B. Wheelwright. 



Abe Bailey. 

 . Capt. W. Jardine. 

 . B. J. Fitzhevbert. 

 . Sir H. J. Goold-Adams. 



Major W. Anstruthur Gray. 



F. V. Worth ington. 



J. L. Drege. 



Count E. Hoyos. 



T. Stephenson. 

 . Col. W. H. Sitwell. 

 . Julius Jeppe. 



Do. 



. Capt. H. D. Livingstone. 

 . Capt. Sandilands. 

 . Major C. F. Pinney. 

 . P. C. Keytel. 



A. E. Croker. 



. Lieut. -Col. F. Fitzherbert. 

 . Major G. F. Henry. 



- Owner's measurements. 



