20 THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 



The members of this genus are distinguished from the Harte- 

 beests by their shorter faces and absence of horn-pedicles, the 

 frontals not being specially developed for this purpose as in Alee- 

 lapJius. In pygargus the height at the shoulder is about 40 inches. 

 Horns sublyrate, fine horns measure from 15 to 16| inches in 

 length. General colour rufous brown, dark purplish brown on 

 flanks and upper parts of limbs, paler on shoulders and saddle. 

 Conspicuous white blaze on forehead, continued forwards as a 

 broad nose-stripe. Ears brownish buff. Base of tail and patch on 

 rump white. Lower parts of limbs white on outer sides. Belly 

 white, sharply marked off from brown flanks. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 93) : — length on front 

 curve 15 ; circumference 6| ; spread from tip to tip -8|. The 

 best of the two females is No. 19. 7. 15. 97, which has the following 

 horn measurements : — length on front curve 14t| ; circumference 

 51 ; spread from tip to tip 6f . 



Typical locality. Cape Colony ; the range formerly extended as 

 far north as the Orange River. At the present time the species is 

 extinct in the wild state. Selous secured his specimens from one 

 of the two farms where the Bontebok is preserved. 



67-68 —19.7.15.93-94. AprU, 1895. Nachtwaoht Farm, near 



Cape Agulhas, Capo Colony. 

 69 —19.7.15.95 (Immature). November, 1896. Naohtwaoht 



Farm, near Cape Agndhas, Cape Colony. 

 70-71 —19.7,15.96-97 (females). Skull and homa. Naohtwaoht 



Farm, near Cape Agnlhas, Cape Colony. 



BLESBOK. 



DAMALISCrS ALBIFEONS. 



Antilope alUfrons, Burohell, Travels in S. Africa, vol. ii. p. 335, 1824. 

 Dainalis albifrons, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii. p. 233, 



1846; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 141; Knowsley Menagerie, p. 22, 



pi. xxii. fig. 1, 1850; Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 129; 1852; Cat. 



Euminanta Brit, Mus. p, 45, 1872; Hand-List Buminanta Brit. Mua. 



p. 116, 1873. 

 Damaliscm albifrons, Solater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i. 



p. 79, pi. ix., 1895. 



Very similar to the Bontebok, distinguished by the absence of 

 the purplish-black body markings, the white forehead blaze being 



