The Cape Oribi 239 



1. Cape Oribi {Oribia scoparia). 



2. Peters's Oribi {Oribia hastata). 



3. Gambian Oribi {Oribia nigricaudatd). 



4. Abyssinian Oribi {Oribia montana). 



B. The horns stouter and strongly ridged for more than half their 

 length. 



5. Haggard's Oribi {Oribia haggardi). 



The Cape Oribi {Oribia scoparia) 



Ouribikje of the Boers ; Iula of Zulus, Svvazis, and Matonga ; 

 Pulukudukamani of Transvaal Basuto ; Chisimbi of Lower Zambesi 

 Natives (this name, however, is used indiscriminately for other 

 small antelopes). 



Colour, tawny yellow above, white beneath, sometimes with a rufous 

 tinge on the back ; fur close and somewhat curly ; tail short, black above ; 

 ears moderate, narrow, and pointed ; a tuft of hair below each front knee ; 

 muzzle naked; sub-orbital gland much developed; aperture circular; 

 lateral hoofs present ; horns, only present in the males, average 4 inches in 

 length, and rise vertically from the skull above the eyes, are widely 

 separated, ringed at the base, and bend slightly forward ; shoulder-height 

 of adult male, 26 inches. The cry of alarm is a sharp whistle. 



These little antelopes range from the south-eastern portions of the Cape 

 Colony, through Natal, Zululand, the Free State, and Transvaal. Fairly 

 numerous in parts of Bechuanaland, on the north bank of the Chobi 

 River and North-East Mashonaland. Very plentiful on the open downs of 

 Manicaland and in Portuguese East Africa, south of the Zambesi. Their 

 range extends north of the Zambesi into British Central Africa, where it 

 overlaps that of 0. hastata (Peters's oribi). Oribi are equally at home on 

 the lofty summits of the Drakensberg range, amongst the rolling foot-hills, 

 and on the sweltering plains of the Pungwe and Urema Rivers, Portuguese 



