2 MR. F. C. SELOUS ON A HYBRID ANTELOPE. [Jan. 17, 



as in the Hartebeest, but yet being slightly lunate in form and 

 ringed as iu the Tsessebc. As regards the animal itself, van Eooyen 

 tells me that the colour of its skin ou the body, head, and legs was 

 precisely the same as in an ordinary Tsossebe. but that it had the 



Ileiul of supposed hybiitl Auielope between Buhalif< /loiafa and B. caania. 



comparatively large bushy tail of a Hartebeest. When it ran, it ran 

 with its tail held out as llartebeests do, and with the light springy 

 gallop of those animals. There can, I think, be no doubt in the 

 mind of any ratioual being that this curious animal is a cross 



between the Hartebeest and Tsessebe Antelopes " 



" P.S. — You will notice that the prominent rings ou the horns 

 I am sending you agree with those which are present just at the 

 backward turn of the horns of a Hartebeest." 



