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some of my statements, and made a number of additions to the loca- 

 lities for certain species in the Cape colony. These I have incor- 

 porated into my paper verbatim, with liis name attached to the 

 ex racts, except m instances when I had gathered the same informa- 

 tion for myself; in such cases I did not think it necessary to do this. 

 Elephas africanus (the Elephant), /. c. p. 280. 



otlfefwJf' ^"^T;/^^ Elephant is still found in some of the 

 other large forests of the eastern provinces of the Cape colony, one 

 ot the spots being the Addo bush, near Port Elizabeth. My infor- 

 mant told me that their spoor was frequently seen while the railway 



tTe'lit";? ?f t' ?r a'^'* '^'' '"^"^^^^ apparently disliked to cross 

 tne line Itself. In the Amatonga country, in a spot south of Dela-^oa 

 Bay and east of the Eon.bo hills, there is a small herd preserved ty 

 the chief Nosingi 1 ; I am told, however, that they are for the mo2 

 part tuskless and very fierce, which. I believe, is generally thelse 



ZnT^^'Vu''^''f '^'"? appendages : from he!^ they sometimes 

 cross the Bombo, and wander, m summer, through the plains under 

 uea h these hills to places where the " Umganu '' tree i^ common to 

 feed on its fruit, which is about the size of a plum, and of which he 

 Elephants are extremely fond. 



In 1875 an Elephant was killed in Umsila's country, north of 

 Delagoa Bay, with tusks weighing 1501b. each, which, I beheve. is 

 the largest pair ever known. 



Equus auAGGA (the Quagga), /. c. p. 281. 



Mr. Layard, in his letter, makes the following remark on my 

 statement as to the extinction of this the true Quagga — " He is I 

 think, wrong We had a young Quagga (true) in the S. A. Museum : 

 and I several times saw skins tor sale in Cape Town, mutilated and 

 unfit for mounting. I forget the locality whence they came, but 

 t?^ rf somewhere from the S.W. Chapman and Andersson 

 both spoke to me of it ; but I have not my books to refer to " 



in the Table at the end of my former paper, p. 291, there is a 

 misprint relatmg to this animal, -the extensive plams north of the 

 vaai^river ; south should be substituted for tiortk. 



Eauus MONTANus (the Zebra), l. c. p. 282. 



Mr. Layard gives another locality for this species. He says " It 

 was not extinct in 1868, to my personal knowledge. It existed in 

 small troops in the Hottentot Holland mountains near Fransch 

 Mock not far from Cape Town. I knoiv, in 1864, it was in the 

 bwartbergen, between George and the Beaufort Karroo ; I hunted it 

 there along with the Kudu, though unsuccessfully. Buckley, in 

 i-.Z S. 18/6, p. 282, says. 'It was still said to occur in the Hottentot 

 Holland mountains.' I heard of it on the mountains to the eastward 

 Zuurberg &c." 



Cephalophus grimmia (the Duiker) /. c. p. 283. 



I was not aware, until Sir Victor Brooke informed me. that there 



