454 MR. T. E. BUCKLEY ON THE [May 15, 



was more than one species of Duiker ; so that the remarks in my 

 former paper can only refer to the eastern variety. Mr. Layard 

 seems to consider that there is another species still, besides the 

 eastern form and that of the Cape colony, which comes from 

 Ovampoland. He thus characterizes them : — "The Eastern form is 

 grey, with a rufous dash between the horns and down the front and 

 nose ; the Western form is all grey, and a different grey from the 

 Eastern ; the colonial one is rufous (chestnut), with a dark, almost 

 black, dash down the face, and a tuft of twisted hair between the 

 horns. I am not sure that the others have this." In both my 

 specimens, however, from Matabililand the tuft of twisted hair 

 between the horns exists. 



^PYCEROS MELAMPUS (the Pallah), /. c. p. 283. 



The Pallah was at one time pretty common in suitable places in 

 the north of Natal ; and even yet, I am informed, a small herd of 

 from eight to a dozen individuals exists on the Mooi river, near its 

 junction with the Tuglea, where they are now preserved. 



Strepsiceros kudu (the Koodoo), I, c. p. 284. 



Concerning the existence of the Koodoo in the Cape colony, Mr. 

 Layard says : — " In 1864 the Koodoo was an undoubted inhabitant 

 of the Swartbergen before noted, to my personal knowledge ; also I 

 heard of it in the forests of Zitzikama, Fish river, and other forests 

 to the eastward. Buckley seems to doubt its still being in the 

 colony." 



In the 'Cape Monthly Magazine ' for November 1875, Gough 

 and the northern part of Bushmanland in the Cape colony are given 

 as localities for this species. 



Alcelaphus caama (the Hartebeest), I. c. p. 285. 



The same gentleman who showed me the Gemsbock's head, told 

 me that a few Hartebeests were to be found in the same place as the 

 Oryx ; and, if I remember rightly, he had brought with him a pair 

 of their horns from that locality. Mr. Layard says that the Harte- 

 beest still lingered in the Beaufort Karoo, between Nelspoort and 

 the Zwartberg in 1864. In Natal I saw a fine herd of these Ante- 

 lopes, close to Pietermaritzburg, in September of last year, also a 

 small herd of eight or nine on the Biggareberg. 



Alcelaphus lichtensteini ?, I. c. p. 286. 



This species of Hartebeest is found along the coast, commencing 

 about 24° S. lat., and goes along to the mouth of the Limpopo. It 

 is again found far inland at Shesheke, a town on the north side of 

 the Zambesi, and a little west (about forty miles) of where the 

 Chobi and Zambesi join. A friend of mine who had just come down 

 from that place kindly presented me with two pairs of horns, male 

 and female. On showing them to a Mr. Du Bois, with whom I was 

 just about to start on a hunting-expedition, he at once recognized 

 them as the horns of a Hartebeest he had seen some distance north 



