34 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Bubalis pygarga, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 209, 

 1846; Temminck, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, p. 195, 1852; Brehm, 

 Thierleben, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 217, 1880 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, p. 69, 1892 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 202, 

 1893. 



Alcelaphus pygargus, Sclater, List. Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 150, 

 1883; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. 

 pt. ii, p. 273, 1884 ; Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 295, 1889, 

 Nature and Sport in S. Africa, p. 265, 1897 ; Flower and 

 Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 335, 1891. 



Damaliscus pygargus, Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, 

 p. 73, pi. viii, 1895 ; Lydekker, Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 p. 166, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 121, 1908 ; Selous, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 175, 1899 ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 137, 1900 ; Ward, Records 

 of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 145, 1910. 



Damaliscus pygarga, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 903. 



BONTEBOK. 



The type species. 



Typical locality Cape Colony ; the range extending as 

 far north as the Orange Eiver. 



Height at shoulder about 3 feet 4 inches.* General colour 

 rufous fawn, darkening into blackish on crown of head, 

 sides of face and neck, flanks, thighs, and fore part of 

 rump, the latter tint also extending down front and outer 

 sides of limbs to knees and hocks, above each of which it 

 forms a garter ; front of face in adult, hind portion of rump, 

 inclusive of root of tail, and knees, hocks, and shanks (with 

 the exception of a dark line down front surface) white ; tail- 

 crest, which reaches hocks, black. Horns sublyrate, without 

 strongly marked basal divergence. 



In immature animals the face-blaze is wholly slatey grey. 

 Good horns measure from 15 to 16f inches in length, with a 

 girth of from 6 to 6|, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 5 to 

 10 inches. Skull-measurements practically the same as in 

 D. albifrons. 



39. 7. 25. 1. Skin, mounted. Cape Colony ; collected 

 by Dr. Smuts. Purchased, 1839. 



39. 7. 25. 2. Skin, mounted, female. Cape Colony; 

 same collector. Purchased, 1839. 



96. 11. 28. 1. Skin, mounted. Nakhtwicht Farm, Ere- 

 dasdorp, Cape Colony. Presented ly F. C. Selous, Esq., 1896. 



* Nicolls and Eglington state that the height may reach as much 

 as 3 feet 11 inches. 



