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been shot at, and turn half round to have a look at you. They retreat in 

 Indian file, and each troop has a recognised leader, generally an old 

 female, and if this pilot is knocked over several can be shot. It is their 

 habit to feed in circles and return to the same spots to page, so that 

 if you know the ground you can often come across them in this way. 



Both sexes have been shot with dried mud on their horns, so that they 

 doubtless kneel and wallow in damp spots like the blue wildebeest ; the 

 fact that the cranial cavities are infested with dipterous larvae may induce 

 this habit. 



The calf is at first dun brown, with a black line down the centre of the 

 back, and has not a trace of the yellowish blaze on the rump ; it is very 

 swift whilst still quite young, and I tried in vain to run one down on 

 September 22, 1895. 



On August 11 an adult cow carried a nearly full-grown fcetus. 

 Wounded animals emit a hoarse grunting bellow, but I have never heard 

 of one charging a sportsman. Percy Rendall. 



BASTARD HARTEBEESTS 



Genus Damaliscus 



As there is no popular name applicable to all the members of this genus, 

 it seems advisable to take the second title of the type species (the tsessebe) 

 as the general term. These animals are very closely allied to the true 

 hartebeests, and are often included in the same genus, but they are dis- 

 tinguished by the more ordinary length of the face, the want of a distinct 

 pedicle for the support of the horns, the absence of a sudden bend in the 

 horns, which mostly form a simple curve, and the lower withers. The 

 five well-marked species are restricted to Africa south of the Sahara, and 

 may be arranged in three groups, as follows : — 



