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of Delagoa Bay, and called them by the native name of "Nondo." 

 Speke and Grant found them common in Central Africa, in several 

 localities ; they are apparently local, as they have not been observed 

 at the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi. The horns of this species are 

 a good deal smaller than those of ^. caama, and are very much flat- 

 tened at the base. 



In the ' Cape Monthly Magazine ' for November 1875, this species 

 of Hartebeest is apparently mentioned under the name of Maak 

 Hartebeest, and the coast district between the Limpopo and Zambesi 

 is given as one of its habitats. 



CoNNOCHETEs GNU (the Common Gnu), l. c. p. 286. 



According to the November number of the ' Cape Monthly Maga- 

 zine,' a small herd of this animal is preserved on one of the large 

 farms in Victoria, West division, in the Cape colony. 



In the Table at the end of my former paper, p. 272, under this 

 heading, " south" must be substituted for "north ;" and the same 

 mistake occurs also lower down, under the heading Hij^potragus 

 equinus. 



Oryx capensis (the Gemsbock), /. c. p. 289. 



Mr. Layard corrects a statement of mine, to the effect that the 

 Gemsbock is found at Cape L'Agulhaz ; this it appears is not so, as he 

 himself knows the country about there well, and has hunted all over it. 



While at Cape Town I met with a gentleman who had just returned 

 from Little Namaqua Land, where he had been successful enough to 

 shoot a male Oryx ; and he kindly showed me its head. This is now 

 probably the only place in the Cape colony where this species exists. 

 I have been told, too, that the Oryx is found in the north-eastern i)art 

 of the Transvaal, and sparingly "north of Delagoa Bay. Tiie Hon. 

 W. H. Drummond, in his book on the Large Game of South and 

 South-east Africa, mentions the Gemsbock as occurring a little to the 

 north of the Sutu river, in Amaswazi Land ; this would be a httle 

 north of 27° south latitude, and 32° east longitude. 



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BuBALus CAFFER (Cape Buffalo), I. c. p. 289. 



While I was at the Cape, waiting for the steamer to take me onto 

 Natal, I heard of a man who was going down to the Knysna to try 

 and shoot Buffalo there ; and in Mr. Layard's letter, he says that 

 the Buffalo "was certainly still found in the Knysna and" all the 

 great forests of the eastern provinces up to the date of my leaving 

 the Cape in 1870." 



In Natal, besides the herd mentioned in my paper, I have since 

 been informed that a few are still supposed to exist on the range of 

 hills between Natal and Moschesh's country, where the Umkomazi 

 and the Umzinkulu rivers rise : this is one of the wildest and least- 

 known parts of that colony. 



In the ' Cape Monthly Magazine' for November 1874, a writer on 

 Antelopes states that " a remnant still roams through the Tzitzi- 

 kama forest." 



