764 MR. F. C. SELOUS ON AFRICAN ANTELOPES. [JuilC 21, 



Victor Brooke, to whom I sent an example of the horns, thinks 

 it will probably prove to be the same animal. 



The Konze very closely resembles the Hartebeest of South Africa; 

 the horns, however, are shorter and flatter at the base, and the fore- 

 head is not nearly so elongated. The black mark down the front of the 

 face of the Hartebeest is also wanting in the Konze, where the colour 

 is of a uniform light red. The general colour of the animal is a 

 little lighter than that of the Hartebeest, the tail, knees, and front 

 of all four legs being black. As in the Hartebeest, there is a patch 

 of pale yellow on the rump ; and the insides of thighs and belly are 

 also of a very pale yellow. One old bull that I shot was of a very 

 rich dark red colour all along the back and the upper part of the 

 •sides. About a hand's breadth behind each shoulder was a patch of 

 dark grey about six inches in diameter. A female that I shot also 

 had these grey patches behind the shoulders. In two other full- 

 grown males these patches were wanting. 



21. Alcelaphus lunatus. 



{Bastard Hartebeest of the Dutch and English ; Tsessebe of the 

 Bechuanas ; Incolomo and Incomazan of the Amandebele ; Inhweho 

 of the Masubias ; Unchuru of the Makubas ; Inyundo of the Maka- 

 lakas ; LmcAm of the Masaras.) 



In travelling up the centre of South Africa the first place in whicli 

 this Antelope is to be met with now-a-days is in the neighbourhood of 

 the Marico river, a tributary of the Limpopo ; and from there it is 

 found throughout central South Africa wherever I have been, south of 

 the Zambesi, in all those parts of the country that are suitable to its 

 habits. I say south of the Zambesi, because during my journey 

 through the Manica country to the north of that river in 18/7-78, 

 although the terrain appeared well suited to its habits and require- 

 ments, I saw none of these Antelopes. I have heard, however, from 

 the natives that they are very common in the neighbourhood of 

 Sesheke. 



This Antelope is never found in hilly country or in thick jungle, 

 but frequents the open downs that are quite free from bush, or else 

 open forest country in which treeless glades are to be met with. On 

 the Mababe flat at the end of the dry season large herds of these 

 animals congregate together, and I have often seen, I am sure, several 

 hundreds of them at once. They are without exception the fleetest 

 and most enduring Antelope in South Africa. In 1879 all the 

 Tsessebe and Blue Wildebeest cows calved on the northern bank of 

 the Chobe during the first week in September, whilst on the Mababe 

 flat, only about one degree further south, the same animals did not 

 calve before the first week in November, 



22. Catoblepas gorgon. 



{Blau Wildebeest oVt\i& Dnich ; Blue Wildebeest o? (he ^n^hh ; 

 Kokon of the Bechuanas ; Inkone-kone of the Amandebele; Ee viimba 

 of the Makalakas ; Numbo of the Masubias ; Minyunibwe of the Ba- 

 tongas ; Unzozo of the Makubas.) 



