Tiang — Bontebok 17^ 



The Tiang (Damaliscus corrigum tiang) 



Native Name, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Tiang 



This antelope, whose habitat, as at present established, is Senaar, 



Kordofan, and the Bahr-el-Ghazal provinces, is but little known. It 



closely resembles the other Korrigum hartebeests, but is slightly inferior 



in size. A pair of horns (female), now in the Natural History Museum, 



procured by the late Consul Petherick, measure 2oJ : inches over the 



curve, have a circumference of 6| inches, and measure 6| inches from tip 



to tip. These came from the Bahr-el-Ghazal. TT . - 



H. A. Brvden. 



The Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) 

 Bontebok (Pied Buck) of the Cape Dutch 



Writing on the bontebok in 1837, Captain, afterwards Sir, Cornwallis 

 Harris states that at that time " it was common in the interior of South 

 Africa, and still found near Cape Agulhas," and in all recently published 

 works upon South African antelopes we are told, upon the strength of 

 Harris's writings, that although it has now ceased to exist in the interior 

 of South Africa, and is only to be met with in small numbers near Cape 

 Agulhas, it was once widely distributed over the open plains of the 

 Orange Free State, Bechuanaland, and the Transvaal. 



There is ample evidence, however, that the bontebok never existed, at 

 any rate within historical times, in any other part of South Africa but the 

 plains which skirt the sea in the immediate vicinity of Cape Agulhas, and 

 that Cornwallis Harris was entirely mistaken in supposing that he had met 

 with this species to the north of the Orange River. 



