The Hartebeests 



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unlike what is so often the case with other species of wild goats, they but 

 seldom offer a second chance. 



The name of the species among the Bedouins of the peninsula of Sinai 

 is bedan ; but they are also termed merely " game," being, par excellence, 

 the game animals of the country. 



Distribution. — "The mountains of Southern Arabia, the Sinaitic Peninsula, 

 Upper Egypt, and thence apparently into those of Morocco and the interior 

 of Senegambia." John Marriott. 



The Abyssinian Ibex (Capra vali) 



Of this ibex very little is at present known. The Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild has a head in his museum, the measurements of which are as 

 follows : — length on front curve, 25-i inches ; circumference at base, j\ 

 inches ; from tip to tip, 1 3 inches. This wild goat appears to be closely 

 related to the preceding species (C. nubiana), but the head is distinguished 

 by a prominent frontal development of the bone. Its habitat lies in the 

 mountains of Abyssinia. H. A. Brvden. 



THE HARTEBEESTS 



Genus Bubalis 



In spite of its general use, scarcely any name is less easy of definition 

 than the title " antelope," which is applied to almost any hollow-horned 

 ruminant not coming under the designation of an ox, a sheep, or a 

 goat. Being far too useful and generally accepted to be discarded, it must 

 be remembered that when this term antelope is used, it is employed in a 

 very general, and not in a strictly zoological sense. That is to say, 

 antelopes do not form a single sub-family of the hollow-horned ruminants 

 of equivalent rank to the Bovince or the Caprina ; but rather include a 



