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LEUCORYX ANTELOPE WHITE-TAILED GNU 
white, render it a most conspicuous animal. On its native 
veldt it has now become a very rare species, and seldom is 
taken by sportsmen. The fine male specimen in the Park was 
presented by Miss Jean Walker Simpson. 
The Sing-Sing Waterbuck, (Cobus wictuwosus), is a crea- 
ture of the lowlands, and frequents the dense tangles of tall 
reeds that border many of the rivers of West Africa, above 
the great equatorial forest. In captivity it sometimes is 
one of the most insanely nervous and irrational creatures 
imaginable, ever seeking self-inflicted injuries. 
The Blessbok, (Damaliscus albifrons), is a small but hand- 
some purple-and-white antelope which is now very nearly 
extinct. Formerly a number of herds were preserved on 
fenced farms in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, but 
it is feared that none of them survived the Boer War. This 
species never lived north of the Limpopo, but south of that 
river it once was so numerous that a truthful traveler 
described a vast plain as being ‘‘purple with Blessbok.”’ 
The Nilgai, (Portar tragocamelus), is the largest of the 
Indian antelopes, and while it has the stature and the high 
shoulders of a Baker roan antelope, its absurdly small 
horns give it, beside the large antelopes of Africa, a very 
commonplace and unfinished appearance. The males and 
females are as differently colored as if they belonged to 
different species. This animal inhabits the roughest 
portions of the central plains of Hindustan, from Mysore to 
the Himalayas. In northern India it is found along the 
rivers Jumna and Ganges, in rugged and barren tracts of 
ravines which in character and origin resemble our western 
‘“bad-lands.”’ 
